Political Risk

BMI View: Despite congressional approval for the bulk of the government's budget proposals in December, the real test of enacting key reform to the labour and energy sectors still awaits.... 2006-12-28

BMI View: Recent bouts of gamesmanship between outgoing President Vicente Fox and Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez point towards a prolonged period of political animosity between the... 2006-09-27

BMI View: With Calderón's victory confirmed, relative calm will return to Mexico for now, but we expect further confrontations over the coming weeks. Calderón will have to work... 2006-09-06

BMI View: With Calderón's victory confirmed, relative calm will return to Mexico for now, but we expect further confrontations over the coming weeks. Calderón will have to work... 2006-09-06

A new political landscape has been carved out between the left and the right. Indeed, looking at how the states swung in the Mexican presidential race, of the 32 voting areas (31... 2006-08-14

It was a nail-biting three days but it looks like Felipe Calderón of the ruling Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) has won Mexico's presidential elections. The narrowest of victories... 2006-07-17

The pollster's results vary considerably and some are considered more reliable than others. Indeed, one poll by GEA-ISA has Calderón ahead by 10 percentage points on 41%, compared... 2006-05-18

With just weeks remaining until the July 2 vote, PAN candidate Felipe Calderón has overtaken long-standing favourite AMLO, in the opinion polls.

Immigration reform has finally reached the top of the agenda in the US. Following in the wake of the Cancún summit between the US, Mexico and Canada that ended on March 31, the US... 2006-04-13

Five candidates have registered for the July vote, but the race will clearly be fought between just three: Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) for the PRD-PT-Convergencia alliance;... 2006-03-15