Mexico - September 2020

This month’s Latin American Regional Report: Mexico looks at issues in the spheres of fiscal policy, domestic trade, and economic development that the government faces.... Read More

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on 19 August attended with his cabinet the LIX plenary meeting of the national conference of governors (Conago) in San Luis Potosí, the capital of the eponymous state.... Read More

Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) released on 21 August its latest figures on domestic trade, which includes both retail and wholesale of goods and services.... Read More

The United Nation’s Development Programme (UNDP) released its Human Development and Covid-19 in Mexico: Challenges for a Sustainable Recovery report on 14 July.... Read More

The death of at least three Mexican migrant workers due to coronavirus (Covid-19) in Canada has prompted Mexico’s national human rights commission (CNDH) to launch an investigation into the circumstances in which they died and the situation of Mexican migrant workers in Canada.... Read More

An investigative report by anti-corruption organisations has outlined how a Romanian criminal group arrived in the Riviera Maya tourist hot spot in Mexico’s Caribbean coast and appears to have settled there in the space of just a few years.... Read More

Mexico’s federal midterm legislative and state elections may still be a year away, but social media platforms are already taking steps to ensure that the campaigning leading up to these is as transparent and fair as possible.... Read More

Falling investment: On 6 August Mexico’s national statistics institute (Inegi) released figures for May on gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), according to which investment in fixed capital goods such as machinery and equipment fell by 38.4% year-on-year, and by 4.5% compared with April.... Read More