“COVID-19: What Are State Governments Doing In the Face of the Crisis?” Courtesy of IMCO Since the start of the emergency, state governments announced actions to help mitigate the negative economic impact of COVID-19, and local authorities are implementing emerging plans to support families, workers and small businesses. These local economic revival […]
Tag: Mexico
Mexico has division of powers for a reason
“Democracy, even if you don’t like it” By Manuel Guadarrama, courtesy of IMCO and El Sol del Mexico Reviewing the constitutional text helps to keep track. Last week, the president declared that he did not like the Court’s ruling, in which the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) and the Federal Commission on Economic […]
Government’s plan for reopening Mexico is insufficient
“COVID-19: Economic Reactivation In Latin America” Courtesy of IMCO On April 5, the Mexican government presented an economic revival plan in the face of the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This plan is insufficient to protect families’ incomes, jobs and regain economic dynamism. In contrast, other Latin American countries have announced ambitious economic rescue plans that provide […]
Mexico prepares for “day without women”
“The strength of women” By Fatima Masse, courtesy of IMCO The brutal deaths of Fatima Cecilia, Ingrid Escamilla, Isabel Cabanillas and Brenda Josselin are just some recent and known cases of the wave of anti-woman violence that Mexico is experiencing. These crimes continue a growing trend of several years, reaching three daily femicides in […]
USMCA: A victory for American workers, needlessly delayed by petty politics
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor On Wednesday. January 29th, President Donald Trump signed the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) into law, at long last replacing the outdated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Trump called it “…the largest, most significant, modern, and balanced trade agreement in history. All of our countries […]
Beware AMLO’s authoritarian tendencies
“AMLO and the “Fourth Transformation” in Mexico” By Roberto Salinas-León, courtesy of the Cato Institute According to Enrique Krauze, Mexico’s prominent classical‐liberal intellectual, new “winds of authoritarianism” are sweeping across Latin America, characterized by all‐mighty caudillos who ascend to political power via democratic means, but who then seek to concentrate control over a tightly knit polity […]
Congestion costs Mexican cities 94 billion pesos a year
“The cost of congestion: life and resources lost” Courtesy of IMCO Mexican cities do not measure the effects that vehicular congestion has on the population, so the inhabitants pay the high costs generated by this problem due to the lack of public policies and investment to guarantee better public transport services. This […]
China Loses, Mexico Wins? Not So Fast!
“China Loses, Mexico Wins?” By Manuel J. Molano, courtesy of IMCO and El Sol de México Last September, Shannon O’Neil published an article in Bloomberg that said Mexico should benefit from the US trade war with China. O’Neil mentioned the openness of the Mexican economy, which is higher as a percentage of GDP than […]
Trade War – DEFCON 2
By David Nelson, CFA CMT, TES Contributor Friday brought the curtain down on the market’s first negative month of the year and its first down May since 2012. From the President’s first tweet that China was backtracking on commitments already made to late Thursday’s announcement that the administration was putting a […]
Here we owe again: Trump threatens Mexico tariffs over immigration
Apparently tariffs are like duct tape: there’s nothing they can’t do. With that in mind Donald Trump is going to try to use tariffs – specifically a 5% tariff on all U.S. imports from Mexico, due to take effect June 10 – in order to force the Mexican government to somehow stop illegal […]