Mary Beth Sheridan

• Americas

President Andres Manuel López Obrador, in his final month in office, is pushing legislation that would send appointed federal judges home and let voters elect their replacements.

• Americas

Diplomats say López Obrador’s judicial reforms threaten Mexico’s young democracy and the United States’ most important trade relationship.

• Americas

The Mexican president Lopez Obrador rejects U.S. criticism about his radical judicial reform. The dispute comes as the U.S. is relying on Mexico to contain migration during a presidential campaign.

• National

Guatemalan officials announced the dismantling of a smuggling ring behind the deadliest incident of its kind on U.S. soil, in which 53 migrants died.

• Americas

The Sinaloa cartel chief said El Chapo Guzmán’s son invited him to a meeting with Sinaloa’s governor, but he was ambushed and then flown to the United States.

• Americas

The U.S. ambassador’s account is the first official explanation of the mysterious flight that carried two Sinaloa cartel leaders to the United States last month.

• Justice

In Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador demanded that Washington “tell the truth” about what happened in the arrests of two cartel leaders.

• Americas

The capture of Sinaloa cartel leaders Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López was a historic coup against a syndicate that’s flooded the United States with fentanyl.

• Americas

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was fooled into boarding a U.S.-bound private plane with Joaquin Guzmán, El Chapo’s son, who was also detained, a DHS official said.