Mexico - March 2023

This March 2023 issue of the Latin American Regional Report: Mexico begins with reports that public transport drivers in southern Mexico – and Chiapas state in particular – have fallen victim to extortion from Central American street gangs.... Read More

The crackdowns that some Central American governments are waging on street gangs are potentially driving gang-related crime in Mexico.... Read More

Berlin-based NGO Transparency International (TI) released its 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) on 31 January.... Read More

Protesters in the town of Aquila in Mexico’s southwestern Michoacán state brought operations to a halt at an iron mine owned by a local subsidiary of the international steel manufacturer Ternium on 22 January.... Read More

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador published two decrees in the official gazette (DOF) on 18 February.... Read More

On 15 February, Mexican airline Aeromar, which served 21 domestic and three international destinations, announced that it would cease operating definitively after 35 years of services in Mexico, the US, and Cuba.... Read More

Mexico’s federal audit office, the Auditoría Superior de la Federación (ASF), which played a key role in uncovering major corruption scandals in the previous administration of former president Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), presented the third and final part of its report on federal government expenditure for 2021 on 20 February.... Read More

A report on labour poverty by local think-tank México, ¿Cómo Vamos? published on 21 February, found that despite improvements recorded in the labour market by the end of 2022 the working situation for women in Mexico had worsened.... Read More

MEXICO | Inflation slows.... Read More