LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 11 April 2018

Development: On 10 April, there was widespread criticism of the decision by Mexico’s electoral court a day earlier to allow Jaime ‘El Bronco’ Rodríguez Calderón to stand as an independent in the presidential elections on 1 July. Significance: Rodríguez Calderón is not going to win the presidential election but his participation in the contest will take votes away from the current frontrunner, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of the left-wing Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) party.... Read More

* Mexico’s energy minister, Pedro Joaquín Coldwell, called for discipline and continuity in the negotiation of oil concession contracts during the opening of the third national petroleum convention on 10 April.... Read More