Enrique Pena Nieto
  • High-profile corruption cases fall apart in Mexico

    The unraveling of the cases has reinforced long-held notions that the Attorney General's Office is more focused on political vendettas or favors than justice.

    Retired Mexican Army General Tomas Angeles Dauahare, center, is escorted by unidentified members of his legal team as he leaves the Altiplano maximum security prison in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, April 18, 2013. Federal prosecutors have dropped organized crime charges against Dauahare, accused of aiding a drug cartel after determining that the witness testimony was not enough to sustain their case. He had been in prison since last year, charged with protecting members of the Beltran Leyva cartel.
    LAST UPDATE : Apr 24, 2013, 10:50 AM EDT
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  • Teachers chant slogans holding up metal pipes and wooden sticks while blocking a major highway in Chilpancingo, Mexico, Thursday, April 11, 2013. The teachers, who are protesting an educational reform that will submit them to evaluation and loosen union control over hiring and firing, left peacefully after negotiating with police. (AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez)
    Mexican president faces teachers' revolt

    Teachers marched by the thousands through the streets of the state capital, in an escalating showdown over education reform.

    LAST UPDATE : Apr 14, 2013, 8:09 PM EDT
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  • Peña Nieto looks to up ties with China

    President Enrique Peña Nieto is visting Asia on a practical mission: to persuade China to be a bigger investor in Mexico, not to present his country as a competitor, and to kickstart the countries’ almost nonepenxistent diplomatic relations. Americas,Asia-Pacific,China,Enrique Pena Nieto,Mexico,Alex Erquicia

    Published Date : Apr 04, 2013, 12:38 PM EDT
  • FILE - In this March 11, 2024 file photo, Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, center, is flanked by Mexican Senate Deputy Chairman Francisco Arroyo Vieira, left, and Mexican Senate President Ernesto Cordero as he shows an agreement signed by him and the three major political parties that would create two new national television stations and form a powerful independent regulatory commission, along the lines of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, in Mexico City.
    Mexico's president gathers power, pushes reform

    Enrique Pena Nieto has been fast out of the blocks in attacking some of Mexico's toughest issues in a country often stymied by monopolies and corruption.

    LAST UPDATE : Mar 19, 2013, 6:54 AM EDT
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  • Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto speaks during an event an agreement with the three major political parties was signed to create two new national television channels and form a powerful independent regulatory commission along the lines of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, at the Technological Museum in Mexico City, Monday, March 11, 2013.
    Mexico moves against TV, telephone tycoons

    Part of President Enrique Pena Nieto's reform agenda is overhauling the paltry regulatory scheme that has left media power concentrated.

    LAST UPDATE : Mar 11, 2013, 10:13 PM EDT
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  • Justice for Mexico’s “disappeared”
    Former President Felipe Calderón’s anti-drug policy had predictably bloody results. Americas,Enrique Peña Nieto,Felipe Calderón,Forced disappearance,Government,law enforcement groups,Mexican Drug War,Mexico,Erin Wright
    Published Date : Feb 22, 2013, 10:20 AM EST
  • Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto holds up a folder containing documents describing an education reform proposal during an event to announce it in Mexico City, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012.
    Mexican president pushes sweeping education reform

    Enrique Pena Nieto is taking on an iron-fisted union leader considered the country's most powerful woman as he tries to install a new system to evaluate teachers.

    LAST UPDATE : Dec 10, 2012, 7:24 PM EST
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