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...On December 1, Mr López Obrador will officially take the reins from sitting president Enrique Peña Nieto....
...Brazil’s new justice minister Sérgio Moro told the Financial Times. Charts of the week Brazil’s stock market soars Video of the week How Mexican are you?...
...Presidents Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico, Mauricio Macri of Argentina and Sebastián Piñera of Chile also congratulated Mr Bolsonaro on his victory....
...“It’s a recognition that the Atlacomulco model did not work,” said Sergio Aguayo, a political analyst, referring to the tight band of politicians from Mr Peña Nieto’s home town who have come to be a watchword...
...Polls remain unreliable, as final candidates have not yet been declared, but near the top of all surveys is Sergio Fajardo, a centre-left former mayor of Medellín, who would be considered a sensible social...
...Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz wrote that Mexicans saw life as the possibility to screw or be screwed....
...“Trump did whatever he liked with Enrique Peña Nieto, who gave a brilliant demonstration of his weakness,” said Sergio Aguayo, a political commentator....
...“[Mr Peña Nieto] basically has a year.”...
...“The government is going to have to make some concessions,” said Sergio Aguayo, a political analyst. “The question is, to what extent teachers are going to want to make life easy for Peña Nieto.”...
...Sergio Aguayo, a Mexican academic and another signatory, said the government had proved in the past that it took note when foreign voices weighed in with criticism....
...José Octavio Bordón, a former presidential candidate and provincial governor, says 15-20 per cent of voters remain undecided, with “none of the presidential candidates inspiring either great enthusiasm or...
...Her “relative popularity expresses broad support for a good part of the policies implemented during her tenure,” said Sergio Berensztein, a political analyst....
...“If one compares the strategies of [his predecessor] Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto, there is no doubt that Enrique Peña Nieto has got better results in the fight against criminal bands,” said Sergio...
...It got us absolutely nowhere,” says José Octavio Bordón, who was Argentina’s ambassador in Washington during the Kirchner era....
...Furthermore, a new central bank survey of market participants put insecurity at the top of the list of concerns overshadowing the economy, a counterpoint to Enrique Peña Nieto’s smiling optimism at a summit...
...“This is a tax reform which had a lot to do with political sensitivity and the current political climate,” said Sergio Martín, chief economist at HSBC in Mexico City....
...As Sergio Martín at HSBC said in a note to clients: October’s same-stores sales drop of 2.1% is higher than the year-to-date average fall of 0.2%....
...Bringing back F1 would be a coup for Enrique Peña Nieto, who became president of Mexico just under a year ago, intent on portraying the country as a vibrant, emerging power, rather than a country riven by...
...“The pact is now on shaky ground,” said Sergio Aguayo, a respected political analyst....
...says Sergio Martin, HSBC’s chief economist in Mexico City. “These things are what the middle class spends its money on.” Another factor that explains Mexico’s improved fortunes is its competitiveness....
...Sergio Aguayo, a respected researcher at Mexico City’s Colegio de México, says that he has been impressed with the quality and track record of Mr Peña Nieto’s security team....
...Sergio Aguayo, a professor at the College of Mexico, a centre of higher education, admits to being surprised in a positive way by Mr Peña Nieto’s apparent determination to address Mexico’s age-old problems...
...As Sergio Sarmiento, a respected columnist, reminded Mexicans recently, “we cannot close our eyes to the fact that these subsidiaries lose, not earn, buckets full of money”....
...Sergio Martín, chief economist at HSBC in Mexico City, says that the latest figures point to the strong performance of Mexico’s domestic economy since last year following a long period in which recovery...
...“Investors have already discounted any effect the elections could have,” says Sergio Martín, HSBC’s chief economist in Mexico....
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