Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Tuesday he favors initiatives to legalize some drugs if it can help rampant violent crimes drop.

Humanitarian aid will move into Venezuela in less than two weeks, opposition leader Juan Guaido said Tuesday during a rally to add pressure on President Nicolas Maduro.

Uruguay officials have changed posture toward solving a crisis in Venezuela and signed a declaration calling for Caracas to hold new elections immediately.

Mexican women say they don't feel safe when riding the country's urban mass transportation rail system, known as Metro, after several recent kidnapping attempts.

The death toll after a gasoline pipeline explosion in Mexico on Friday night that occurred as large groups were stealing fuel rose to 85 people.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday blamed gasoline shortages in Mexico City on a sabotage of fuel pipelines.

Thirteen nations from the Group of Lima have agreed to deny entry to high-ranking officials of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government.

The Mexican government on Monday dispatched thousands of military to oversee pipelines that will be gradually reconnected Monday to normalize fuel distribution.

Mexico saw over 1,700 homicides in December, reporters were told.

The Mexican government will recruit 50,000 civilians by 2021 to train so that they can be part of a new national guard in a bid to fight crime.

The Mexican army took control of state oil company Pemex refineries where some workers were preventing access to strategic areas.

A Mexican official said Wednesday there will be four investigations of a helicopter crash this week that killed a governor, a senator and three others.

Mexico delayed by six months a process to select partners for Pemex in exploration areas scheduled for February to review the process, and canceled two others.

Mexico's new government plans to revert "disaster" found in refineries, upgrading six of them, and add a new one, in an effort to achieve "energy sovereignty."

Thousands of migrants from the Central American caravan have put their names on a waitlist for a preliminary political asylum interview, which could take months.