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Mexico & Nafta - January 2015 (ISSN 1741-444X)

Peña Nieto seeks to regain the initiative

President Enrique Peña Nieto completed his second year in office on 1 December, leaving four years to go in his six-year single term. It was a tough year in 2014 for the Peña Nieto administration, with insecurity concerns upstaging the government’s structural reform agenda in the wake of the abduction of 43 trainee teachers from the town of Iguala in the state of Guerrero [RM-14-12]. With the federal government still facing social discontent over its inability to resolve the Iguala case, and tackle insecurity more generally across the country, Peña Nieto sought to regain the initiative in his New Year’s address, unveiling a new set of economic stimulus measures for 2015, which is an election year.

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