LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 06 September 2018

Development: On 5 September, a group of heavily armed men attacked a rural police patrol in Mexico’s southern Guerrero state, leaving one police officer dead and five injured according to a statement by Roberto Álvarez, security spokesperson for the Grupo de Coordinación Guerrero state government agency.... Read More

*Ascensión Medina Nieves, the president of Mexico’s college of civil engineers (CICM), has said that after carefully evaluating the two proposals to build a new international airport for Mexico City presented to it by President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s government transition team, the CICM considers that the project to build a completely new airport (NAICM) is the best option.... Read More

With the change in government now under way in Mexico, the August edition of the Regional Report: Mexico & Nafta delves into some of the immediate political changes that are already taking place in the country.... Read More

On 1 July 2018, Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the presidential elections in México after three attempts over the past decade.... Read More

Corruption, low quality, and bureaucracy have historically characterised Mexico’s education system.... Read More

In a joint press conference on 15 August, US and Mexican government officials announced a new bilateral agreement and measures to combat organised crime on both sides of the border.... Read More

There are a number of issues looming large over Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador.... Read More

Economic growth: On 31 July Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) released new preliminary economic growth figures which show that the country’s GDP fell by 0.1% in the second quarter of the year compared with the previous quarter.... Read More