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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 10 August 2018
MEXICO: Private sector questions López Obrador appointments
Mexico’s leftist president-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was viewed with suspicion by much of the country’s private sector during the election campaign, but the relationship had been warming up since his resounding electoral victory on 1 July. Gustavo de Hoyos, the president of the influential Confederación Patronal de la República Mexicana (Coparmex) employers’ association, had signalled a willingness to bury the hatchet and work with López Obrador. But tensions have re-emerged following two recent appointments at state-run firms considered key to the country’s economy. The appointments are threatening to undermine López Obrador’s fragile relationship with the country’s business leaders.
