In her first year in office, Claudia Sheinbaum has deftly managed tensions with the US and at home. But the pressure is ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans will vote in the country’s first judicial elections Sunday. The fiercely debated question is whether electing judges will deepen democratic decay or purge courts of rampant ...

Video of the assassination of Mexican mayoral candidate Alfredo Cabrera has shocked America. But that murder on Wednesday was only one of many. Some 30 political candidates have been murdered during ...

To some Mexican expatriates in Tucson, Mexico's hotly disputed presidential election exemplifies the growing pains of democracy. "The controversy is testing the institutional democracies of Mexico," ...

The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado serves as a powerful symbol of hope for those fighting for democracy at a time when many countries in Latin America ...

The day of the change -- From disorder to despotism -- Tlatelolco, 1968 -- Earthquake, 1985 -- Chihuahua, 1986 -- 1988 -- Ernesto Zedillo, the outsider -- Raúl ...

Most people don’t realize just how much public media does to hold our democracy together until it starts to fall apart. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been a lifeline for local journalism ...