Mexico is holding its largest election ever Sunday to elect its first female president and over 20,000 government officials in a race largely overshadowed by violence.

The scale of violence, which included 102 political assassinations, as well as kidnappings, forced disappearances, attempted murders, and attacks on family members, campaign staff, and official ...

Conflict Index identified Mexico as the most dangerous and violent country in the world without an ongoing conventional war ...

This electoral cycle in Mexico is already the most violent in recent memory. In the seven months from September to May 2, 560 victims suffered lethal and nonlethal electoral violence; there have ...

MEXICO CITY — Andrés Manuel López Obrador is not on the ballot in Mexico’s presidential election on Sunday. But he might as well be. The vote is widely viewed as a referendum on the popular ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico goes into Sunday’s election deeply divided: friends and relatives no longer talk politics for fear of worsening unbridgeable divides, while drug cartels have split the ...

Mexico's general election will be held at the beginning of June and it will mark the end of a campaign season of record violence. Some thirty candidates have been assassinated in the past year.

IRAPUATO, Mexico — Tens of thousands of people packed a stadium in a violence-torn western Mexico state while even more did so in Mexico City's central square Friday as the country's leading ...

The Trump rally shooting is a symptom of political instability that follows a global trend, something Mexico has experienced even more fiercely. News Today's news ...

This Sunday's election in Mexico will probably yield a first: a woman president. But the nation's electoral machinery is struggling to deliver free and fair elections.

From September 2023 to election day, Integralia Consultores documented 889 victims of political violence across the country, including the assassination of 39 candidates. Victims of political ...

Xochitl Galvez, Mexico's opposition presidential candidate, center, speaks to supporters during an election night rally at her campaign headquarters in Mexico City, Mexico, on Sunday, June 2, 2024.