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Mexico - May 2022
Uncertainty remains despite electricity reform rejection
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).
- 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