José de Córdoba

1 week ago | wsj.com | José de Córdoba

June 14, 2025 12:17 pm ETListen to article(2 minutes)Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Latin America’s first elected female president whose stunning victory at the polls in 1990 helped bring an end to eight years of a civil war in Nicaragua that involved the U.S., has died at 94. Doña Violeta, as she was known in Nicaragua, died after a long illness in Costa Rica, where she had been taken by her family in 2023.

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | José de Córdoba |Santiago Pérez

Turnout was very light, and vote-counting for many races is expected to take several days. About 13% of Mexico’s 100 million voters went to the polls, according to a preliminary count by the country’s electoral authority. Still, Morena is expected to dominate the vote and consolidate its power. It already holds the presidency, most state governorships and two-thirds of Congress.

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | José de Córdoba |Steve Fisher

Ruling party is expected to cement control of Supreme Court, key tribunals amid low turnoutMEXICO CITY—Mexicans will vote Sunday in nearly 2,700 judicial races for federal and state judges, a new practice that the government says will stamp out corruption but that opponents fear will give the ruling party control of the judiciary and empower candidates with criminal ties.

3 weeks ago | livemint.com | José de Córdoba

MEXICO CITY—Mexicans will vote Sunday in nearly 2,700 judicial races for federal and state judges, a new practice that the government says will stamp out corruption but that opponents fear will give the ruling party control of the judiciary and empower candidates with criminal ties. Nearly 7,800 candidates are participating in contests that will make Mexico the only country in the world to elect all its judges.

1 month ago | tovima.com | Steve Fisher |José de Córdoba

MEXICO CITY—Mexican special forces blasted into a safe house in the Sinaloa cartel stronghold of Culiacán earlier this year looking for Mexico’s most wanted man: Iván Archivaldo Guzmán. The son of Sinaloa cartel founder Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and current leader of the cartel’s most powerful faction narrowly evaded capture, according to Mexican officials. A cabinet in a bathroom obscured the entrance to a tunnel where Guzmán escaped as special forces moved in.