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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 15 January 2018
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Development: On 14 January, the governor of Mexico’s northern state of Chihuahua, Javier Corral, addressed a large rally at which he accused the federal government of punishing his administration financially for its uncompromising investigation of official corruption.... Read More
* Representatives from Mexico’s livestock sector have called on the European Union (EU) to ease trade restrictions on products such as beef.... Read More
From Latin American Economy & Business
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac) published its updated estimates and forecasts for the regional economies in 2017 and 2018 on 14 December.... Read More
With presidential elections due in July and the fate of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) hanging in the balance, 2018 will be a momentous year for the Mexican economy.... Read More
The sixth round of tripartite negotiations between Canada, Mexico, and the United States on the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) was due to be held in Montreal, Canada, on 23-28 January.... Read More
As our Special Focus on Mexico shows (see below), notwithstanding intensifying external and internal pressure most governments in Latin America, along with the judiciary, the police, and other state agencies, are still struggling to respond adequately to corruption.... Read More
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and its sister organisation, the Financial Action Task Force of Latin America (GAFILAT, comprising 17 countries from South, Central and North America) have been compiling two new evaluation reports on Mexico and Colombia’s progress with Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorist Financing (AML/CFT) efforts.... Read More
As we went to press on 9 January, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) issued its latest short-term energy outlook, in which it projected that US crude oil production would average 10.3m b/d in 2018, the highest annual average production in US history, surpassing the previous record of 9.6m b/d set in 1970.... Read More
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