LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 22 May 2018

* Mexico’s economy ministry has released new figures which show that foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to Mexico reached US$9.5bn in the first quarter of 2018, up 19.6% on the same period the previous year. According to the ministerial press release, under the current administration led by President Enrique Peña Nieto (which took office in December 2012), accumulated FDI inflows reached US$182bn, 15.4% more than the six-year goal laid out in the national development plan (2013-2018). As regards sources of FDI, of the total, 43.6% came from the US; 18.6% from Spain; 8.6% from Canada; 5.9% from Australia; and 5.1% from the Netherlands, with other countries making up the rest.

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