Mexico & Nafta - May 2018 (ISSN 1741-444X)

As Mexico’s 1 July general election draws closer and with Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the presidential candidate of the leftist opposition Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) party, appearing to consolidate his lead in voting intention polls, the May edition of the Regional Report: Mexico and Nafta provides an in-depth look into what López Obrador’s political project represents for Mexico.... Read More

Andrés Manuel López Obrador is a leftist former mayor of Mexico City (2000-2005), who is running for Mexico’s presidency for the third time.... Read More

The Mexican economy is one of the twenty largest economies in the world when measured by its output capacity and GDP.... Read More

Mexico’s best-known business man, Carlos Slim Helú, has warned that halting construction of Mexico’s new international airport (NAICM) would “cancel growth in the country”.... Read More

There has been a deeply troubling increase in the last three years of cases of violence against women in Mexico.... Read More

First quarter growth: On 30 April Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) released new preliminary figures which show that GDP growth in the first quarter of the year was 1.1% quarter-on-quarter, bringing the year-on-year rate to 2.4%.... Read More