Mexico - August 2024

This August 2024 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Mexico opens by looking at the mammoth task that lies ahead for Omar García Harfuch, who will head up the public security ministry (SSPC) when President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum takes office on 1 October.... Read More

On 4 July Mexico’s President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum announced that Omar García Harfuch would head up the public security ministry (SSPC) when she takes office on 1 October.... Read More

In its World Drug Report published on 26 June, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) highlighted the challenges presented by synthetic drugs.... Read More

Minerva Pérez Castro, the head of Mexico’s national chamber of fishing and aquiculture industries (Canainpesca) in Baja California state, was murdered in an apparently targeted attack in the port city of Ensenada on 8 July.... Read More

Authorities in Mexico’s northern state of Coahuila announced that biological remains had been found on 3 July during the recently rebooted search effort in the Pasta de Conchos coal mine, where 65 miners were killed following an explosion in 2006.... Read More

With most of the top appointments in her incoming government now confirmed, it is clear that Mexico’s President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum is treading a fine line between continuity and change as she prepares to take power on 1 October.... Read More

In July, President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum repeated campaign pledges to address issues surrounding water supplies in central Mexico.... Read More

As Mexico becomes embroiled in the growing trade war between the US and China, local officials have insisted that a new agreement with the US to slap tariffs on steel and aluminium shipments diverted through its southern neighbour would not harm the national steel industry.... Read More

MEXICO | Inflation continues to rise.... Read More