Mexico & Nafta
Mexico & Nafta - October 2019
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- Introduction
Economy
- Budget assumptions appear overly optimistic
- Falling inflation raises spectre of further interest rate cuts
Business
- Pemex restructures debt in bid to fend off downgrade
- Fresh investment in Mexican fintech firms
Security & Economy
- Claiming success in fighting huachicoleo
Security
- New Conadic director outlines fresh approach
- ‘Glitter revolution’ demands end to gender violence
HIghlights
- Economic Highlights
The administration led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is already looking forward to advancing its economic plans in the new year.
Mexico & Nafta - September 2019
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- Introduction
Economy
- Mexico responds to poor second-quarter growth with new stimulus plan
Extractives
- Pemex business plan met with scepticism
Infrastructure
- First stage of Veracruz port modernisation project implemented
Security
- Failing Venus
- Focus on internally displaced
Security Policy
- Seeking a pact with criminal groups?
Business
- Aeromexico faced by various competitors
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
The September issue of the Regional Report: Mexico & Nafta includes articles on the economic measures that the government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has adopted to try to reactivate domestic economic growth; criticisms over the administration’s efforts to improve public security and reduce violence; and on the difficulties faced by Mexico’s flag-carrier airline.
Mexico & Nafta - August 2019
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- Introduction
Security
- Can Mexico’s Guardia Nacional solve the country’s public security crisis?
- Rising extortion in Mexico City
Economy
- Finance minister’s resignation raises questions over policy direction
- Recession Rumours
- US steel duties add to string of bad news
- Pipeline contract dispute could impact USMCA ratification
Security Strategy
- El Chapo out of play but violent game continues
Security & Economy
- Pemex: not just an economic problem
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
This edition of the Regional Report: Mexico & Nafta contains analysis of the public security and economic situation in Mexico at the start of the second half of the year.
Mexico & Nafta - July 2019
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- Introduction
Migration
- Migration problems set to intensify
Economy
- Disappointing first-quarter growth
Strategy
- Immigration deal dodges US tariff threat – for now
Business
- Business pledges to push up investment
- Despite tariffs, will BMW prosper in Mexico?
Security
- Kidnappings put López Obrador under pressure
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
The July Regional Report: Mexico & Nafta covers political and security issues, as well as an overview on Mexico’s general economic environment at the half-way point of the year.
Mexico & Nafta - June 2019
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- Introduction
Politics
- Fresh developments in Mexico’s Odebrecht probe
Politics & Economy
- Medicine supply contracts part of Mexico’s growing healthcare crisis
- Mexican house of cards: the energy sector regulator drama
- Highly ideological national development plan lacks well-defined policies
Economy
- Mexico-Argentina car export treaty extended ahead of potential FTA
Highlights
- ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS
Mexico & Nafta - May 2019
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- Introduction
Politics
- Internal discord threatens to check Morena momentum
- Tensions with US prompt Mexico U-turn on migration policy
Politics & Economy
- López Obrador remains obstinate in the face of mounting woes at Pemex
Economy
- Low labour productivity means long hours for Mexican workers
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
The Regional Report: Mexico & Nafta for May provides an overview on some of the most pressing political, economic, and foreign policy challenges facing the government led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Mexico & Nafta - April 2019
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- Introduction
Economy
- Could improving labour rights encourage Mexican workers to stay at home?
Security
- The president’s promised drop in homicides still pending
Politics & Security
- López Obrador takes on ‘the 43’
Politics
- Sheinbaum encouraged by first 100 days as CDMX mayor
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
The April edition of the Regional Report: Mexico & Nafta includes articles on subjects that have become persistent issues in the country, which the authorities have yet to resolve.
Mexico & Nafta - March 2019
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- Introduction
Energy & Politics
- Power plants generating nothing but controversy
Economy
- US suspends tomato agreement as trade war looms
Security & Economy
- Mexico fuelling US fentanyl crisis
Security
- Fallout from El Chapo’s trial: who’s next?
- Illegal Mexico gun sales land Heckler & Koch a heavy fine
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
The March edition of the Regional Report: Mexico & Nafta contains articles on various issues that look likely to shape the Mexican government’s agenda in coming months.
Mexico & Nafta - February 2019
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- Introduction
Security
- López Obrador takes on Mexico’s fuel thieves
- Desertion crisis a crucial test for López Obrador’s national guard
Security & Politics
- The numbers battle: López Obrador, homicides and the role of the press
Politics
- Governor’s sudden death compounds main opposition party’s problems
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
It may only be the second month of the year and just the third month that Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been in office, but his government is already starting to face some considerable challenges.
Mexico & Nafta - January 2019
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- Introduction
Security
- A new plan for a perennial problem
- The trial of El Chapo and Mexican politics
Politics
- The possibility of decriminalising abortion in Mexico
Economy
- Mexico City’s water shortages illustrate urgent need for policy overhaul
Highlights
- Economic Highlights
With Andrés Manuel López Obrador now firmly at the helm of the Mexican government, the January edition of the Regional Report: Mexico & Nafta takes a look at some of the issues that have concentrated the attention in the first weeks of the new administration.