LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 20 August 2018

Development: On 19 August the government transition team appointed by Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced the launch of a series of public forums to discuss the drafting of a new national agreement to promote education in the country.... Read More

* Moisés Kalach, the negotiation coordinator of Mexico’s Consejo Coordinador Empresrial business lobby in the renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), said that a year on from the start of the negotiations, the Mexican and US negotiating teams still have to make progress in some of the “toxic” issues included in the talks such as new rules of origin for the automobile sector and the so-called ‘sunset clause’.... Read More