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Mexico - May 2022
Introduction
Around 1.2m international tourists were expected to visit the Mexican state of Quintana Roo over the Easter holidays, a 36.6% increase on the year before.... Read More
Violence
Quintana Roo’s state tourism ministry (Sedetur) expected to welcome around 1.2m international tourists over the Easter holidays, a 36.6% increase on the year before.... Read More
Environment
Droughts have increasingly affected Mexico in recent years, and it appears 2022 is to be no different.... Read More
Migration
Commercial traffic crossing from the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila and Chihuahua into the US state of Texas ground to a halt for a week in April.... Read More
Politics & Economy
On 17 April, Mexico’s lower chamber voted against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s electricity reform, which had sought to increase state control of power generation and therefore reverse one of the central features of the sector’s liberalisation as undertaken by the previous administration of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018).... Read More
Economy
On 4 May, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador unveiled a plan to limit the extent of rising prices of foodstuffs and other basic goods.... Read More
Infrastructure
On 28 April, deputy finance minister, Gabriel Yorio, disclosed that the finance ministry (SHCP) was developing a package of tax incentives to boost investment in the Tehuantepec Isthmus region in southern Mexico, where the distance between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean is at its shortest.... Read More
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- Introduction
- Violent crime encroaches on tourist hotspots
- Water scarcity looms large in northern Mexico
- Trade stifled on US border amid migration dispute
- Uncertainty remains despite electricity reform rejection
- Gov’t anti-inflation plan likely to have limited impact
- Slow progress for ambitious railway projects
- Economic highlights