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

Coming as it does in the immediate wake of Mexico’s 1 July general election, which has delivered victory for Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the leftist Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) in the presidential race, the July edition of the Regional Report: Mexico & Nafta continues to analyse some unfinished business that the new government will inherit from the outgoing administration on 1 December.... Read More

On 5 June, the Colegio de México (Colmex), a public university based in Mexico City, released its ‘Desigualdades en México 2018’ report to “highlight the interdependence and accumulation of inequalities” in the country.... Read More

Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto on 5 June – the United Nation’s (UN) World Environment Day – signed 10 decrees that give the state limited access to water sources in the national territory, the exploitation of which previously was banned.... Read More

On 20 June, Canada became the first member of the G-20 group of industrialised countries to formally legalise the recreational use of marijuana; the legislation comes into effect on 17 October.... Read More

Mexico’s widespread plague of ‘disappearances’ has long been described by domestic human rights organisations as one of the greatest challenges facing the country, and yet for years it has broadly evaded international attention.... Read More

The crisis that Venezuela is experiencing has generated a massive migration of Venezuelans to its bordering countries and had increased the levels of human trafficking, sexual abuse, exploitation, and trafficking of Venezuelan women and girls in other countries.... Read More

Moody’s reacts to election result: On 2 July Moody’s Investors Service, the international credit ratings agency, stated that Mexico’s financial volatility and oil sector risks are likely to increase following the victory of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the 1 July presidential election.... Read More