Mexico & Nafta - February 2019

It may only be the second month of the year and just the third month that Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been in office, but his government is already starting to face some considerable challenges.... Read More

Oil-rich Mexico has long had a complicated relationship with its reserves of ‘black gold’.... Read More

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposal to establish a national guard came as a surprise to many, after his campaign promises to demilitarise Mexico’s fight against organised crime and drug trafficking.... Read More

When Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office as Mexico’s president on 1 December 2018, he promised a reduction in homicides and overall improvements in the security situation in the country in the first 100 days of his presidency.... Read More

Guillermo Pacheco Pulido of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) was elected on 21 January as the interim governor of Mexico’s Puebla state, following the sudden death on 24 December 2018 of the elected governor Martha Érika Alonso of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) and her husband Rafael Moreno Valle – the leader of the PAN bench in the federal senate and her predecessor in Puebla (2011-2017) – in a helicopter crash.... Read More

Banxico warning: On 3 January Mexico’s central bank (Banxico) warned that domestic economic growth this year will be conditioned by the high level of uncertainty surrounding the lack of clarity over the economic policies that will be adopted by the new administration led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.... Read More