Mexico - December 2025

We start this December edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Mexico in the western state of Michoacán, where the outspoken, anti-crime mayor of Uruapan municipality was murdered on 1 November.... Read More

The brazen murder of the outspoken, anti-crime mayor of Uruapan municipality on 1 November has thrown Mexico’s western state of Michoacán into the centre of debate around the government’s security strategy.... Read More

During the first year of the administration of President Claudia Sheinbaum, from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025, Mexico recorded a significant drop in homicides.... Read More

Mexico’s government has launched a plan to tackle sexual assault and harassment after President Claudia Sheinbaum was publicly groped in early November, in a shocking incident that garnered attention across the world.... Read More

Mexico’s government launched a major crackdown on the gambling industry in November, in a bid to disrupt the financial operations of transnational criminal organisations.... Read More

Mexico ramped up tariffs to as much as 210% on sugar imports from countries without trade deals on 10 November, in a move designed to protect the domestic sugar industry from falling international prices and trade “distortions” resulting in oversupply.... Read More

Mexico received a total of US$40.91bn in foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in the first three quarters of this year, up 14.5% compared to the same period last year and a new record.... Read More

President Claudia Sheinbaum has reached an agreement to extend a deal with the private sector designed to stop the price of a basic basket of goods from increasing in the next six months.... Read More

MEXICO | Gov’t raises minimum wage.... Read More