LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 24 July 2018

Development: On 23 July Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced in a press conference seven priority projects, worth approximately US$26bn, that will be undertaken by his incoming government and are to be funded from the savings obtained principally through López Obrador’s proposed ‘republican austerity’ government plan.... Read More

* Jesús Seade, who has been appointed by Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador as his future government’s chief negotiator of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), has confirmed that he has been invited to attend the next Nafta renegotiation round between Mexico, Canada, and the US, scheduled to start in Washington DC on 26 July.... Read More