LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico – 18 November 2019

* The budgetary committee in Mexico’s federal chamber of deputies has missed the 15 November deadline to approve the 2020 draft national budget, the first time in 15 years that this deadline has not been met. Protests staged by agricultural producers forced the postponement of a congressional session last week. The chamber of deputies has announced that it will reconvene to vote on the budget on 20 November, and the ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) has assured that the 2020 budget will be approved in time, by the end of the year. Eraclio Rodríguez, a federal deputy for Morena and president of the rural and agricultural development committee, said that a deal had been agreed with some of the protesters, from the El Barzón grouping of farmers from the states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua, which would be confirmed with the chamber of deputies and finance ministry today (18 November).  

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