1988 – Unsuccessfully runs for governor. Prior to the election, López Obrador leaves the Institutional Revolution Party and joins the Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD). 1994 ...

The former Mexico City Mayor thus succeeds her leftwing MoReNa (Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional) mentor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has announced he would be retiring from politics.

After AMLO departed from office, the party is taking action to prevent defections and disarray.

Last month, Mexico’s Congress passed — and a majority of states ratified — then-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s initiative to make all of the country’s judges subject to election.

The ambassador criticized former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador directly, saying security coordination between Mexico and the U.S. had suffered during his term. "Unfortunately this ...

After handing the reins of power to Claudia Sheinbaum on 1 October, Mexico’s outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, hoisted her arm aloft in a joint show of victory. López Obrador ...

Critics say the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is trying to downplay how people have disappeared in recent years. President Claudia Sheinbaum, who took office this ...

It was Sheinbaum's predecessor and political mentor, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador — who left office Sept. 30 — who decided to make the armed forces the centerpiece of his ...

At the time, former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador- who refused to confront the gangs - said he approved of such talks. "Priests and pastors and members of all the churches have ...

As the protégée of and successor to Andrés Manuel López Obrador (also known as AMLO), she received a record 35.9 million votes—nearly 60 percent of those cast for the top office—and effectively ...