LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 20 September 2018

Development: On 19 September, around 3,000 people gathered in Mexico City’s main square to protest the government’s lack of help and funds in the reconstruction efforts following the earthquakes that devastated parts of the country in September last year.... Read More

* According to figures from Mexico’s economic and budgetary research centre (CIEP), a local-think tank, President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who takes office on 1 December, will have around M$700bn (US$37bn) for the social programmes that he promised in his electoral campaign – a figure which represents some 3% of GDP, leaving him little room for manoeuvre.... Read More