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Mexico & Nafta - October 2018
Introduction
As the long wait for Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador to assume office in December continues, the October edition of the Regional Report: Mexico & Nafta looks at policy initiatives in key areas that the López Obrador government team is seeking to implement.... Read More
Environment
As his 1 December inauguration nears, Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador is generating reams of policy papers that give an indication as to how his government will operate.... Read More
Health & Economy
The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on 11 September released its State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report 2018, which shows that in 2016, 24.3m adults (people of 18 years of age and above) in Mexico were obese, up from 20.5m in 2012.... Read More
Politics
On 10 September, Dania Ravel, a member of Mexico’s national electoral council (INE), confirmed that 67 recently elected female politicians in Chiapas state (including members of the state congress as well as municipal councillors) had resigned their posts to be replaced by men.... Read More
Mexico City’s long-awaited constitution was finally launched on 18 September, completing the capital’s transition into a federal unit comparable to Mexico’s 31 other states, although the city’s status as the seat of national government makes it technically ineligible to become a state in its own right [RM-18-01].... Read More
Highlights
New North American trade deal: On 30 September Mexico’s foreign minister, Luis Videgaray Caso, celebrated the announcement by Canada that it had agreed to subscribe to a new trilateral trade agreement with the US and Mexico that will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta). The announcement by Canada that it has agreed to subscribe to the new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is a boon for Mexico and appears to validate its decision to break ranks with Canada to obtain a bilateral deal with the US first and then hope that the US and Canada could sort out their bilateral differences.... Read More
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