LatAm in Focus: Rewriting Mexico's Security and Energy Agendas
LatAm in Focus: Rewriting Mexico's Security and Energy Agendas
UCSD’s Cecilia Farfán-Méndez covers a new bilateral security accord while Mexico’s former energy regulatory commissioner Montserrat Ramiro gets into the electricity reform discord.
October opened up with big moves in areas high on Mexico’s agenda: security and energy. Both issues are among the most crucial to the country’s future.
On October 8, the Mexican capital played host to senior U.S. cabinet officials for a meeting that spelled the end of the 13-year-old, $3 billion security pact known as the Merida Initiative. A new agreement—with a rather lengthy name that commemorates 200 years of bilateral ties— was announced: the U.S. Mexico Bicentennial Framework for Security, Public Health, and Safe Communities. The two governments are slated to release a three-year plan for the Bicentennial Framework in January 2022. Until its release, the broad strokes of the meeting give a hint of how much will shift.
These are twin tragedies. You have a lot of loss of life in the U.S. because of overdose deaths and...in Mexico because of these firearms.
The AS/COA Online editor-in-chief covers why the neighbors will reexamine the Merida Initiative during cabinet-level talks on October 8 in Mexico City.
“USMCA makes sure that there's a level playing field in every single sector that it considers. [The electricity reform] would just clearly be against it.”
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