New Hurdles for Reforms

MEXICO - Report 25 Mar 2014 by Guillermo Valdes and Esteban Manteca

Executive Summary The road to structural reforms just keeps getting longer and bumpier. The administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto had promised to hand lawmakers its bills for the secondary laws on telecommunications and energy reform by early February, but with just over a month left in the regular session of Congress only the telecommunications proposal emerged, although there were signs on the energy front. Two major reasons for the telecommunications reform delay are differences over how to handle interconnection rates and must-carry, must-offer rules. Multi-party talks on energ...

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