Enrique Pena Nieto

 Murders in Mexico rose by 33 percent in 2018, breaking the record for a second year running, official data showed, underlining the task facing the new president who has pledged to reduce violence in the cartel-ravaged country, writes Reuters. 

U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto postponed plans for the Mexican leader’s first visit to the White House, after a testy phone call involving Trump’s push for a border wall, a senior U.S. official said on Feb. 24.

Mexico has this year registered its highest murder total since modern records began, according to official data, dealing a fresh blow to President Enrique Pena Nieto’s pledge to get gang violence under control with presidential elections due in 2018.

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic has sent a telegram of condolences to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, after a deadly earthquake hit the country.

"We were deeply shaken by the news of a devastating earthquake that hit your country, in which a large number of people were killed and lost their homes," Brnabic wrote.

The death toll continues to rise following a massive 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck Mexico City Tuesday afternoon, collapsing buildings, killing at least 216 people and trapping an unknown number of others in the wreckage.

A strong earthquake has struck central Mexico, killing at least 248 people and toppling dozens of buildings in the capital, Mexico City, reported BBC.

President Enrique Peña Nieto said more than 20 children had died and 30 were missing after a school collapsed.

The 7.1 magnitude quake also caused major damage in neighbouring states.

Desperate rescue workers scrabbled through rubble in a floodlit search on Sept. 20 for dozens of children feared buried beneath a Mexico City school, one of hundreds of buildings wrecked by the country's most lethal earthquake in a generation.

The number of people killed by a powerful earthquake off the southern coast of Mexico has risen to at least 61, officials say.
A huge rescue operation is under way in the worst-hit states of Tabasco, Oaxaca and Chiapas where people are feared trapped under rubble.
President Enrique Peña Nieto says at least 200 people have been injured.

Officials in Mexico are scrambling to respond to a 8.1 magnitude earthquake off the country's southern coast that has killed at least 61 people and triggered tremors across the region, according to The Independent. 

The most powerful earthquake to strike in around 100 years saw with tremors reported from Mexico City to San Salvador to the south.

An earthquake described by Mexico's president as the country's strongest in a century has struck off the southern coast, killing at least 33 people.

The quake, which President Enrique Peña Nieto said measured 8.2, struck in the Pacific, about 87km (54 miles) south-west of Pijijiapan.