LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 06 August 2018

Development: On 5 August Mexico’s national human rights commission (CNDH) alleged human rights violations against eight people, including five minors, by the federal police (PF) in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas state.... Read More

* Mexico’s economy minister, Ildefonso Guajardo, has said that following the meetings between Mexican and US government officials to discuss the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) last week, the two sides have “practically resolved” 20 of the 30 pending issues in the negotiations.... Read More

Foreign direct investment (FDI) flowing into Latin America and the Caribbean fell for the third year running in 2017, down by 3.6% to US$161.7bn, according to a report published in early July by the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac).... Read More

If the state of the Nafta renegotiations could be represented on a car’s dashboard, perhaps with a needle pointing to different states of being, over the last month the needle would have swung back and forth wildly pointing to ‘no deal’, to ‘stalemate’, to ‘separate bilateral US deals with Canada and Mexico’ and to ‘deal’.... Read More

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Latin America is still on a recovery path: after a surge in consumption in 2017, investment is finally beginning to pick up.... Read More

Elected on 1 July, future president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has another four months to go (to 1 December) before he is sworn into office.... Read More

Paying taxes and dealing with Latin American governments in all sorts of different areas is time consuming, bureaucratic and often deeply frustrating.... Read More

It could be called a turning point.... Read More

Latin America’s agriculture, livestock, and fisheries output is set to grow by 17% over the next ten years, according to a joint report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).... Read More

Uber says Mexico investment US$500m: US ride-hailing company Uber Technologies said in July that it had invested more than US$500m in its Mexican operations since launching there in 2013.... Read More