Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has lashed out at King Felipe VI of Spain for giving his annual Human Rights Award to FUNDEJ, a NGO based in Jalisco that searches for missing persons.

The three candidates for the governorship of Jalisco seemed more interested in airing each other’s dirty laundry than providing innovative solutions to the state’s pressing problems in the first two of four debates scheduled before the June 2 election.

Mexico has accused the Ecuadorian government of a flagrant violation of international law after police officers entered its embassy in Quito to arrest Jorge Glas, a former vice president facing corruption charges. 

The first of three scheduled debates among the three candidates running for the Mexican presidency—Claudia Sheinbaum (Morena-PT-PVEM), Xóchitl Gálvez (PAN-PRI-PRD) and Jorge Máynez (Movimiento Ciudadano)—turned out to be a damp squib, in the view of many political analysts.

Local authorities in Mazatlan handed out more than 150,000 free glasses for safe viewing of the April 8 solar eclipse.

At the start of 1994, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari hand-picked Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, his social development minister, to represent the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the summer general election.