U.S. officials have called for action against several politicians from Sheinbaum's own Morena party and threatened to levy further tariffs if Mexico did not take action, sources said.

These are not isolated events; they happen because state officials in Mexico protect organized crime—not occasionally but routinely, at various levels of government. Often, officials face a simple ...

Mexico’s battle against corruption took a hit as the country dropped 14 positions in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), placing 140th out of 180 nations in 2024. The country’s score fell ...

The U.S.-Mexico border has always been a politically charged flashpoint. For years, under Republican and Democratic ...

Legally, the victim in a corruption case is the affected government department. Lawyers at Tojil, a Mexico City nonprofit that works to combat corruption, are trying to change that. “The government ...

AMLO has long characterised Mexico’s rampant corruption as being inextricably linked to the country’s neo-liberal turn in the final years of the 20th century, in which waves of privatisation ...

In Mexico, recent electoral violence aims to delineate territorial and political control by organized crime organizations. In the U.S., extremist ideologies have been the distinctive feature of ...