LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 27 March 2018

Development: On 26 March, the governments of Mexico and the US signed three agreements to facilitate customs inspections, enhance border security, and improve safety for agricultural exports.... Read More

* Mexico’s national hydrocarbon commission (CNH), the sector regulator, has reported that 21 firms from 14 different countries have submitted bids for the ‘Round 3.1’ of oil exploration and exploitation concession contracts that will be auctioned on 27 March.... Read More

The Mexican human rights lobby Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y Justicia Penal (CCSPJP) has launched another edition of what can be described as its dark best-seller – the annual ranking of the world’s 50 most murderous cities.... Read More

An optimist might conclude that food security must be a relatively low priority issue for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) right now, compared, for example, with other major problems such as crime and corruption.... Read More

On 13 March Rex Tillerson was unceremoniously dismissed as US secretary of state, with President Donald Trump appointing CIA director Mike Pompeo to replace him.... Read More

Millions of Latin Americans marched for International Women’s Day on 8 March.... Read More

One of the fundamental problems of the Mexican criminal justice system has frequently been identified as the persistence of high impunity rates – the fact that only a small proportion of crimes actually come to trial, and that only a small proportion of those lead to convictions.... Read More