Officials gave no indication of how detectives were found or whether they were freed from captivity

Two detectives looking for 43 students who went missing almost 10 years ago have been found unharmed, two days after they themselves disappeared in Mexico’s Pacific coast state of Guerrero, officials have said.

Officials did not say on Tuesday how the two federal detectives, a man and a woman, were found or whether they had been freed from captivity.

Earlier on Tuesday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had said that a search effort had been launched to find the two federal detectives, a man and a woman. Speaking at his daily news briefing, López Obrador said: “I hope this is not related to those who do not want us to find the youths.”

Leader widely known as Amlo called predecessor’s plane an ‘insult’ but now Tajikistan government pays $92m to take it off his hands

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has finally found a buyer for a luxury presidential jet that he once called an “insult” to the people: the government of Tajikistan.

López Obrador said that the agreed sale price for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner used by his predecessor Enrique Peña Nieto – but never by him – was about 1.66bn pesos, or about $92m.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the photo appeared to show an alux, a creature from Yucatán folklore

Mexico’s president posted a photo on his social media accounts on Saturday showing what he said appeared to be a mythological woodland spirit similar to an elf.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador did not seem to be joking when he posted the photo of an alux, a mischievous woodland spirit in Maya folklore.

Ex-officer was head of army base in Iguala when students were abducted in what a report called a ‘state crime’

Mexican authorities have arrested a retired general and two other members of the army for alleged links to the disappearance of 43 students in the south of the country in 2014.

The assistant public safety secretary, Ricardo Mejia, said that among those arrested was the former officer who commanded the army base in the Guerrero state city of Iguala in September 2014, when the students from a radical teachers’ college were abducted.

Despite Covid deaths and enduring drug violence, voters look poised to keep president in office in referendum he supports

Maria de Lourdes loves her leader and is desperate for him to stay.

“He’s the best president we’ve had in 70 years,” the retiree enthused this week as she prepared to bombard her phone contacts with calls urging them to back him on Sunday, when Mexico goes to the polls.