LatinNews Daily - 22 April 2025

*Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced that she will send to congress a national bill to eliminate bureaucratic procedures and corruption, designed to simplify, digitalise, and standardise government processes at all levels. Sheinbaum also announced, as part of Plan México, a national digital investment window, which aims to streamline business procedures and reduce paperwork for investors. “The goal is to reduce the number of procedures for people, so that whenever someone needs to carry out a process with a municipal, state, or federal government, it can be, whenever possible, digital, done remotely,” Sheinbaum said. Backed by a constitutional amendment, the bill would establish a national simplification and digitalisation model, a single catalogue for procedures, and a national centre for public technology, which is already training over 1,300 public servants in programming, data transmission, and cloud services. The government aims to cut procedures, requirements, and waiting times by 50%, with 80% of processes expected to move online. For businesses, the new platform will unify all federal, state, and municipal requirements, reducing the average investment process from 2.6 years to under one year. Foreign investment is also expected to rise. Ximena Escobedo Juárez, the head of the productive development unit and chief of staff at the economy ministry, said that project approval times will drop from between 105 and 120 working days to just 45, with automatic registration for the national foreign investment registry and streamlined documentation.

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