Mexico - April 2022

Record numbers of foreign migrants travelled to Mexico to settle or make the journey north last year.... Read More

Mexico is in the midst of a migration crisis.... Read More

The cancellation of an educational programme that benefited underprivileged students in Mexico has caused uproar among children’s rights groups, educational organisations and the political opposition.... Read More

The latest annual report by the United Nations (UN) International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), published on 10 March, noted that “cyberspace and cryptocurrencies” were emerging as the “new frontier” for drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) and other criminal groups.... Read More

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador inaugurated the new Felipe Ángeles international airport (AIFA), located 50km north of Mexico City (CDMX), on 21 March.... Read More

Concerns over the autonomy of Mexico’s central bank, Banco de México (Banxico), grew markedly on 24 March, when President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that the bank had decided to increase interest rates from 6% to 6.5%.... Read More

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared that Mexico would not feel the effects of the rising energy prices that the war had caused elsewhere.... Read More

During Mexico’s 85th annual banking convention, which kicked off in Acapulco city (Guerrero State) on 24 March, Finance Minister Rogelio Ramírez de la O confirmed that the country’s financial authorities were working on the development of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), which was first disclosed by Banxico’s deputy governor, Jonathan Heath, at the end of 2021.... Read More

MEXICO | Inflation continues to rise.... Read More