Synopsis Government leaders having constant communications with the citizenry and giving transparency to their public decisions is always desirable. Lopez Obrador’s morning conferences seemed to be a great instrument to achieve these goals at the beginning. However, in reality, they appear to be functioning as a political instrument enabled by the president to influence the … Read more
Synopsis The partial analysis of the initiative to amend and add different dispositions to the electric industry law sent by the federal executive enables us to scope the possible and plausible impacts. Emphasizes the fact that substituting the economic dispatch for merit will imply the loss of competition in the electric industry, which will bring … Read more
Synopsis The Social Security and Retirement Savings laws amendments are filled with chiaroscuro. They tackle relevant issues like the replacement rate, the high contribution weeks, and the high commissions charged by the administrators; nevertheless, it leaves aside issues of greater significance like labor informality, the care system (linked primarily to women) and, the access to … Read more
Synopsis As commented in previous Vital Signals alerts about tourism, this sector faces the most profound and most severe crisis in its modern history, characterized by the total or partial paralysis of its assets (supply shock). Also by the goods and touristic services demand contraction. All this, due to the mobility restrictions (internal and between … Read more
Synopsis The sanitary crisis impact has permeated the business environment in tourism through its different economic activities. This situation is caused by the activities related mainly to services demanding physical presence and people mobility (both providers and petitioners). The mobility in department stores decreased 71% (April 10th, 2020) in the most critical moment of the … Read more
Synopsis Previous to the sanitary crisis, tourism contributed 8.7% of the Gross Domestic Product (PIB for its acronym in Spanish) in Mexico. It was the main source of currency in dollars in the Good and Services Account (24,573.2 million dollars in 2019, 2,163.9 million dollars higher than oil exports). At the same time, it employed … Read more
Synopsis With the allocation process, the Mexican political system began facing new challenges, especially in jurisdictional matters. The federalism built with the long democratization process seems not to have been designed deliberately but due to the political regime changes in the country and diverse political junctures. Among the two emerged conflicts in the new federalist … Read more
Synopsis Since 2008, an open militarization process started in Mexico. The disposition to start frontal armed combat with organized crime was taken by the then president Felipe Calderón, who reinforced the use of the Army and the Navy to perform different national security tasks, especially the ones related to the country’s public safety. Ever since, … Read more
Synopsis Education is one of the most influential factors in the progress and development of people and decreases conditions such as poverty, ignorance, violence, and discrimination; a mechanism that is at stake and feeds a tremendous academic concern in light of the lack of immediate planning of an uncertain future in educational matters. The signs … Read more
Synopsis Since years ago, there is a consensus about the severe violation of human rights in Mexico. Diverse non-governmental international organizations have documented the humanitarian crisis in the country. The very same Lopez Obrador criticized, as candidate and opponent, the Mexican state’s actions in the human rights matter and considered it the main responsible of … Read more