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FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2017 file photo, Emilio Lozoya, former head of Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex, gives a press conference in Mexico City. Lozoya, who was arrested in February 2020 by Spanish police on an international warrant issued by Mexico, has dropped his extradition fight and agreed to return to Mexico to cooperate in corruption investigations, according to Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Gustavo Martinez Contreras, File)

1st hearing in ‘watershed’ graft case of Mexico oil chief

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

Press photographers cover Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador arriving for a press conference in front of the former presidential plane at Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City, Monday, July 27, 2020. The president, who only flies commercial as one measure in his austerity government, has been trying to sell the plane since he took office. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico’s presidential jet lottery sales not going so well

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FILE - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks at the National Palace in Mexico City on April 5, 2020. The countries which top the rankings of COVID-19 deaths globally are led by populist, mold-breaking leaders like Obrador. The U.S., Brazil, the United Kingdom and Mexico all are led by leaders who have been skeptical of the scientists and who initially minimized the disease. And their four countries alone account for half of the total 585,000 COVID-19 deaths worldwide so far, according to statistics tracked by Johns Hopkins University. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Mexico president happy as focus shifts to predecessors

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

This combination photo shows U.S. President Donald J. Trump, from left, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro. The countries atop the rankings of COVID-19 deaths globally are led by populist, mold-breaking leaders. But when it comes to battling a new disease like COVID-19, the disruptive policies of populists are faring poorly compared to more resilient liberal democratic models in countries like Germany, France and Iceland in Europe, or South Korea or Japan in Asia. (AP Photo)

In struggle against pandemic, populist leaders fare poorly

By JOHN DANISZEWSKI - Associated Press

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily, morning news conference at the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional, in Mexico City, Monday, July 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico’s president dismissive of wearing mask in pandemic

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