Mexico - May 2024

The first article in this May 2024 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Mexico looks at the issue of electoral violence in the run-up to Mexico’s biggest-ever election on 2 June.... Read More

Bertha Gisela Gaytán Gutiérrez, a candidate for mayor of Celaya in Guanajuato state, had just finished outlining her security strategy at a campaign rally when unidentified gunmen opened fire and killed her on 1 April.... Read More

Data from Mexico’s national meteorological service (SMN) has revealed that, as of 15 April, Mexico was experiencing its driest year since 2011-2012, when the country underwent a major drought.... Read More

Mexico’s lower chamber of congress approved a reform to the Ley de Amnistía or Amnesty Law on 24 April.... Read More

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is taking his fight against neoliberalism to the very end of his term after pushing major pension reforms through congress in April, with the first payout potentially due a day before elections on 2 June.... Read More

Mexico is consolidating its position as China’s gateway to the Americas with the inauguration on 11 May of China’s biggest airline’s first non-stop service to Mexico – and all Latin America – in what is being billed as the new aerial Silk Route.... Read More

On 1 May, Mexico’s national day of the worker, business organisations including leading private sector lobby, Coparmex, and the association of human capital businesses, Amech, stressed the need for an increase in labour productivity.... Read More

On 1 May a group of minors from the Tzotzil indigenous group marched in the city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas state, to call for better conditions for working children.... Read More

MEXICO | Gov’t hails record FDI.... Read More