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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 14 November 2019

In brief: Approval of Mexico’s 2020 draft budget postponed

* Mexico’s federal chamber of deputies’ budget commission was forced to postpone an ordinary session in which it was due to vote on and approve the expenditure side of the 2020 draft national budget after a group of agricultural producers blocked all access to the San Lázaro legislative palace in Mexico City. The farmer organisations have been protesting outside of the legislative palace since 11 November and have threatened to radicalise actions if lawmakers do not reassign M$24bn (US$1.24bn) to agricultural support programmes in the 2020 budget. The proposed national budget seeks to cut up to 30% of the agricultural budget something that Bosco de la Vega, president of agricultural lobbying group Consejo Nacional Agropecuario (CNA), has described as “disastrous”.

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