LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 20 November 2018

Development: On 19 November Mexican and US authorities ramped up security at the border crossing in the Mexican city of Tijuana after hundreds of local residents staged protests a day earlier against the presence of Central American migrants trying to claim asylum in the US.... Read More

* Mexico’s finance ministry (SHCP) has reported that the country’s risk score increased by 15 basis points to 225 last week.... Read More

Following the US mid-term elections on 6 November president Donald Trump has lost his Republican majority in the chamber of deputies but increased his hold on the senate.... Read More

Voters in Mexico and Brazil, the two largest countries in Latin America, have chosen populist outsiders (of the Left and of the Right, respectively) to be their new presidents.... Read More

With the support of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) his party, the Movimiento de Renovación Nacional (Morena), has presented a bill in congress designed to legalise the cultivation and commercialisation of marijuana for therapeutic, pharmaceutical, and recreational purposes.... Read More

Almost two years after he was extradited to the US, the trial of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, the head of the Sinaloa cartel, has begun in New York.... Read More

There could not have been a crueller, more dramatic way of highlighting Mexico’s problem with an out-of-control murder rate.... Read More