LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 18 January 2019

Development: On 17 January President Andrés Manuel López Obrador expressed his discontent with the constitutional reform approved by the federal lower chamber of congress establishing a national guard in Mexico.... Read More

* In a press conference Mexico’s public security minister Alfonso Durazo has said that, as part of the government’s plan to fight fuel theft, it had blocked the accounts of 13 companies which had franchises of the state-run oil firm Pemex and sold stolen fuel.... Read More

With many Mexican states still suffering from a lack of petrol resulting from the introduction of a new government strategy designed to combat oil theft [WR-19-01] and public discontent over this mounting, there is a growing feeling in Mexico that the situation is turning into the first major test for the new government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.... Read More

MEXICO | Inflation.... Read More