Mexico - June 2025

This June 2025 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Mexico begins by looking at a controversial telecommunications and broadcasting reform bill that the government led by President Claudia Sheinbaum submitted and then hastily withdrew from congress in April amid accusations of censorship. Human rights and press freedom groups, industry organisations, and the political opposition have since raised multiple concerns about the bill, which has been the focus of discussions in congress.... Read More

On 8 May Mexico’s senate began discussions on a controversial telecommunications and broadcasting reform bill.... Read More

In the weeks running up to Mexico’s unprecedented judicial elections on 1 June, several civil society organisations warned of the potential risk of violence against candidates, given the worsening trend of electoral violence in the country.... Read More

Mexico registered nearly 26,000 internal displacements in 2024 due to criminal violence, more than double the number recorded in 2023 according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), an NGO monitoring global internal displacement.... Read More

Mexico’s plans to reduce its working week gradually from 48 to 40 hours by 2030 have triggered warnings from the private sector, which has stated that reforms that are poorly designed and implemented could deal a major blow to the economy.... Read More

Concerns about corruption may have dogged Mexico’s state oil company Pemex for years, but they reached new highs with the decision by Norway’s wealth fund to sell its investments in the company due to an “unacceptably high” risk that it is involved in “gross corruption”.... Read More

The economic impact of violence cost the country the equivalent of 18% of GDP in 2024, according to the latest edition of a yearly report from Australian think tank the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), which was released on 16 May.... Read More

US President Donald Trump’s proposal to impose a 3.5% tax on remittances would cost the Mexican economy more than US$2.6bn per year, according to the Center for Global Development (CGD), a think tank with offices in Washington and London.... Read More

MEXICO | Annual inflation accelerates, exceeds target range.... Read More