Mexico - January 2024

The first piece in this January 2024 issue of the Latin American Regional Report: Mexico begins with the 22 November capture by Mexico’s national guard (GN) of the alleged security enforcer of Los Chapitos, the faction of the Sinaloa drug trafficking organisation (DTO) that the US claims bears primary responsibility for the production and trafficking of the synthetic opioid fentanyl.... Read More

Mexico’s security forces have a habit of capturing high-profile drug traffickers several days before or after meetings between Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his US counterpart Joe Biden.... Read More

The avocado industry in Mexico’s western states of Michoacán and Jalisco is driving deforestation, as well as becoming increasingly linked to organised crime.... Read More

Local and international press freedom organisations raised alarm bells in Mexico following the shooting of five journalists in two separate incidents in Michoacán and Guerrero states on 28 November.... Read More

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has dismissed the results of an international report on education standards released on 5 December that revealed a backsliding in the performance of Mexican high schools.... Read More

Business groups in Mexico have been critical of the nationalist rhetoric and interventionism of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, as well as of his ineffective security policies and his inability, so far, to fire up economic growth.... Read More

China’s ministry for trade has dismissed US concerns over Chinese investment in Mexico, stating that “no third party has the right to interfere in practical cooperation between China and Mexico”.... Read More

A new report from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Eclac) has revealed that poverty and inequality have fallen under Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who took office in December 2018.... Read More

MEXICO | GFCF picks up.... Read More