The results of one of the two most recent government auctions of bandwidth, known officially as Auction Number 21, has been validated by the regulatory authorities overseeing the industry....

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For years the analysts at Mexico City based think tank GEA have insisted that the wage mass (the number of workers multiplied by their real term remunerations) is a fundamental factor ...

President Felipe Calderon convened one last session of the Dialogues for Security, this time with the heads of each party’s congressional caucuses. But he was snubbed by some of the ...

The mounting evidence of a stalling of the U.S. economic recovery has begun to prompt some analysts of the Mexican economy to consider scaling back their growth forecasts for the second ...

The unprecedented public forums that President Felipe Calderon held with leaders of all segments of civil society over the past two weeks raised hopes that new strategies and a broader ...

Consumer optimism: For a seventh consecutive month the index of consumer sentiment firmed, climbing 2.3% compared to July a year earlier on the strength of improved readings in all ...

With the event “Dialogues for Security”, the federal government is reformulating and re-launching its communications agenda on matters related to combating organized crime with a special ...

In the Economic Panorama we examine the delicate situation of the social security in Mexico. The main program, the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), has essentially been bankrupt ...

Bi-weekly inflation: Mexico’s National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) rose 0.15% in the first half of July, capping the country’s longest period of deflation in at least three decades....

As the challenges facing the administration of President Felipe Calderon grow more daunting, it becomes more painfully apparent how desperately the government needs to better communicate ...

Now that Mexico’s Federal Telecommunications Commission has a new man at the helm it has announced a broad and complex agenda that could have sweeping ramifications for the entire ...

Cabinet shake-ups have been a disconcertingly common theme in the Calderon administration through its little more than three and a half years in office. Last week’s reshuffling came ...

More of Calderon’s Inner Circle. Yesterday evening, President Calderon announced changes in his cabinet; specifically, the minister of the Interior, Fernando Gomez Mont and the Head ...

The construction sector was one of the main drivers of Mexico’s economic expansion between 2003 and early 2008. But since then it has languished as the Achille’s Heel of the recovery....

The elections in 14 states last July 4 produced truly surprising results that confounded pollsters and pundits alike. The electoral alliances between the center right National Action ...

For the second quarter of 2010, the Mexican economy is still at risk. However, despite, the grave fiscal imbalances accumulated by a number of European countries, financial markets ...

Winners, Losers and Uncertainties. Based on the preliminary results available up to now, the outcome of the 12 State elections held yesterday in Mexico looks as follows...
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Following the recent G-20 summit, Mexico’s Ministry of Finance and Public Credit announced that Mexico had already rolled back the fiscal stimulus measures implemented to offset the ...

Bi-weekly inflation: Mexico’s National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) fell 0.04% during the first half of June compared to the preceding two week period. It was the fifth bi-weekly decline ...

Mexico has an especially long and intense history of electoral fraud and disputes, but it is hard to recall a similar tide of allegations, evidence and denunciations of violations ...

PRI´s leading candidate to Tamaulipas governorship was killed this morning in an ambush. President Calderon, political parties and authorities condemn the killing and the violence ...

Last week’s report confirmed that the Mexican economy has sustained its recovery from the brutal contraction it suffered during the first half of 2009. In fact, GDP grew much faster ...

The administration of President Felipe Calderon certainly deserves credit for its unflinching commitment to its all out offensive against organized crime. But at no point in the government’s ...