LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 10 January 2019

Development: On 9 January Martha Delgado, the deputy minister for multilateral affairs and human rights at Mexico’s foreign ministry (SRE), said that the government had approached the United Nations (UN) for assistance in the training of the country’s proposed new national guard.... Read More

* Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) has released new figures which show monthly inflation in December 2018 was 0.70%, bringing the year-on-year rate to 4.83%.... Read More

With Andrés Manuel López Obrador now firmly at the helm of the Mexican government, the January edition of the Regional Report: Mexico & Nafta takes a look at some of the issues that have concentrated the attention in the first weeks of the new administration.... Read More

Mexico’s new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has outlined a ten-point plan that he hopes will bring about a positive change for Mexico in terms of security policy; and put an end to widespread corruption and violence in the country.... Read More

The trial of Mexican drug kingpin, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera, started in the US on 13 November 2018.... Read More

In October 2018 federal deputy Silvia Lorena Villavicencio Ayala, of Mexico’s ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) party, presented an initiative before congress that seeks to decriminalise abortion at the federal level.... Read More

On 7 November 2018 Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) federal deputy Leticia Díaz Aguilar called on the legislature’s auditing office (Auditoria Superior de la Federación, ASF) to carry out an investigation into the national water commission (Conagua), the country’s water resources administrator.... Read More

Monetary policy shift: On 29 November 2018 Mexico’s central bank (Banxico) released the minutes of the latest meeting (15 November) of its board in which it decided to increase the benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to a ten-year high of 8%.... Read More