MEXICO CITY Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) and its allies should comfortably defend their…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador s ruling party and its allies are favored to defend their majority in the lower house of Congress in mid-term elections on June 6, opinion polls showed Wednesday, with one pointing to a possibly close result. The main scenario of the May 22-28 face-to-face survey of 1,000 voters by polling firm Parametria saw Lopez Obrador s National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) winning 239 seats in the 500-seat lower house, down from the 253 it currently holds. But together with allies the Green Party and the Labor Party, the alliance would win 315 seats, the poll said. A second, larger survey of 2,000 Mexicans by newspaper El Financiero indicated the result could be tight. It saw MORENA and its allies winning 46% of the vote against 44% for three opposition parties that have forged an electoral alliance. The El Financiero poll, which did not provide a seat forecast, consisted of 1,000 face-to-face interviews from May 27-30 and 1,
Mexican authorities have arrested 30 marines over their suspected involvement in forced disappearances in the northern border city of Nuevo Laredo in 2014, the Navy said in a statement late on Monday.
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April 8 (Reuters) - Residents of northern areas on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent have been ordered to evacuate homes due to a significant increase in the risk of an eruption at the La Soufriere volcano, the government said on Thursday.
Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, said people living in so-called red zones in the northwest and northeast of the island needed to leave immediately as the volcano pumped out more smoke and steam. There is now in the country an evacuation order, Gonsalves said in a message broadcast on social media.
St. Vincent s National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO) said on Twitter there was now a substantial prospect of disaster due to the pick-up in La Soufriere s seismic activity.