LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 11 June 2018

Development: On 10 June Ricardo Anaya, the presidential candidate of Mexico’s Right-Left Por México al Frente opposition coalition, proposed that, should he be elected in the 1 July general election, he would create a special and independent prosecutor’s office to investigate President Enrique Peña Nieto.... Read More

* Daniel Curiel, the coordinator of the council of industrial chambers in Mexico’s Jalisco state (CCIJ), has stated that in as little as 30 to 45 days price fluctuations in Mexico could be seen due to import tariffs imposed by the US and Mexico on some of each other’s exports.... Read More

Over roughly the last three decades the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region has been laboriously building up a patchwork of free trade agreements and sub-regional trade blocs.... Read More

The largest economies in Latin America have been affected by instability in global financial markets in recent weeks, which forms part of broader aversion towards emerging markets’ currencies.... Read More

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The unilateral US decision on 31 May to impose steel and aluminium tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and the European Union (EU) appears to have delivered a major blow to attempts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).... Read More

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) exports grew by 10.6% in the first quarter of this year, but there are signs that the pace of expansion is beginning to slow.... Read More

Mexican business groups are unhappy with the government they’ve got – and worried about the next that they are going to get (it will be chosen in the general election on 1 July).... Read More

Steemit attracts Venezuelans: Caught in an economy that is reeling from the combined blows of recession and hyperinflation, many Venezuelans are seeking out internet-based survival strategies.... Read More