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By authorising four trusts to list on the country's main stock exchange, Mexico's securities regulator has highlighted both its willingness to expand the depth of the country's financial... 2009-09-07

Key cities in the government's battle against the drug cartels, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua and Morelia, Michoacan, have again experienced what appears to be another round of drug-related... 2009-09-07

President Felipe Calderón's administration appears to be losing its war with the country's drug traffickers, after sending 5,500 members of federal security forces to the state of... 2009-07-30

The extent of Mexico's fiscal problems were highlighted on July 22, when the governor of Guerrero, Zeferino Torreblanca, of the left-wing opposition Partido de la Revolución Democrática,... 2009-07-30

On June 17 the Mexican navy announced the seizure of more than one tonne of cocaine hidden inside the carcasses of frozen sharks, an indication of the lengths the cartels will go... 2009-07-02

With a recent poll suggesting the governing Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) has failed to make up substantial ground on the opposition Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), it... 2009-07-02

A recent opinion poll by Berumen/El Universal show that Mexico's governing Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) has failed to close the gap on the opposition Partido Revolucionario Institucional... 2009-05-29

With Mexico's mid-term congressional elections less than three months away, support for the opposition Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) appears to be waning, suggesting... 2009-05-08

We are cautiously optimistic that the political fallout from swine flu may well have run its course. If initial fears of a pandemic had been realised, this would have been bad news... 2009-05-08

Mexico has appointed Nicandra Castro Escarpulli as head of the Agencia Federal de Investigación (AFI), the federal agency charged with combating organised crime in the country. Escarpulli's... 2009-04-02