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...Ricardo Márquez Blas, a former security official, said on a dozen occasions since López Obrador’s term began, the number of homicides had surpassed 3,000 a month, including femicides, compared with just...
...Both of Mr López Obrador’s challengers in the 2018 elections — José Antonio Meade and Ricardo Anaya — were alleged in the document to have taken millions in bribes, as was Mr Lozoya’s successor as Pemex...
...PAN leader Ricardo Anaya, who quashed Ms Zavala’s hopes of leading the party’s candidacy, has teamed up in a right-left alliance but is lying a distant second behind leftist populist Andrés Manuel López...
...Mr López Obrador has had to work to repair his credibility after he defied President Felipe Calderón’s wafer-thin victory in 2006 and set himself up as parallel head of state in Mexico City’s main square...
...In 2006, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a populist left-winger universally known by his initials as Amlo, seemed certain to gain the prize but narrowly lost to the far more market-friendly Felipe Calderón....
...Mr López Obrador could barely conceal his glee. “Calderón’s wife is doing the right thing by rebelling,” he tweeted. “She’s better positioned than Anaya and they’re excluding her.”...
...Mr López Obrador has so far emerged as the man to beat in the July 1 vote....
...The front-runner is Amlo — Andrés Manuel López Obrador, twice narrowly defeated before, a former mayor of Mexico City and the champion of the left....
...The opposition National Action party has not decided whether its leader Ricardo Anaya Cortés, or Mr Calderón’s wife, Margarita Zavala, should be its candidate....
...In May, Ricardo Calderón, Semana’s investigations editor, escaped an apparent assassination attempt near Bogotá. And the government has warned of other plots....
...Richard Lapper Setbacks for Correa Ricardo Patiño, Ecuador’s finance minister, has been in a spot of bother in recent weeks....
...Ricardo Monreal, a central figure in Mr López Obrador’s campaign, told the FT on Thursday the campaign would respect the tribunal’s ruling, which must come by September 6....
...Judging by the cool reaction to Mr Lavagna’s news of his strongest potential ally, Mauricio Macri, let alone the stubborn refusal of Mr Macri’s closest ally, Ricardo López Murphy, to have anything to do...
...Mr Calderón could extend an olive branch to the opposition by following the example of successful poverty relief programmes introduced in Mexico City by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the PRD’s losing presidential...
...At the same time, Mexico’s two other parties, the National Action Party (PAN) of President Felipe Calderón, and the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, have provided the PRI...
...According to Ricardo Monreal, Mr López Obrador’s local campaign organiser, one reason is the proximity to the capital, where the 52-year-old candidate was mayor until last year....
...Even Ricardo Munguía, an office worker who voted for Mr López Obrador, said the latest step in the leftwing candidate’s strategy was one too far....
...National Action Party (PAN), an overwhelming 69 per cent of foreign investors thought Mr López Obrador would win against just 31 per cent for Mr Calderón....
...Ricardo Berzoini, the candidate of the so-called Majority Camp tendency, was forced into a second round run-off after winning less than 50 per cent of the vote of party members....
...That probably reflects the recent media attention received by rightwing candidate Felipe Calderón following his party’s recent primaries....
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