Huge crowds gather across Mexico to oppose a government drive to shrink the independent electoral authority, saying the changes threaten democracy.

Mexican authorities have called the disappearance of 43 students in 2014 a “state crime”, which was scandalously covered up by the government.

Leaders of South and Central American countries have boycotted the so called Summit of the Americas, officially aimed at strengthening hemispheric solidarity.

The mysterious killing of 17 people in Mexico’s Michoacán state has shocked people in the North American country, prompting local authorities to order an investigation into the gruesome incident.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador calls on Washington to stop the “shameful” bankrolling of Mexican opposition groups, and refrain from intervening in the country’s internal affairs.