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The post-North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA) manufacturing boom has been particularly attractive for the Mexican automotive industry. According to Eduardo Solis Sánchez, president of the Mexican Automotive Industry Association, Mexico will see a fifth consecutive year of increased motor vehicle output. The auto industry now brings in...

A MXN169bn ($11.4bn) project to build an international airport in Mexico City is ready for take off, with the government expecting ground to be broken before the end of 2015. The airport is the most significant in a series of large-scale projects designed to tackle shortcomings in the country’s transport and logistics system, signalling the...

With installed capacity of 2600 MW in wind and 55 MW in solar power plants, Mexico generates around 10% of its energy with non-hydro renewables, but it aims to produce 35% of its energy from clean sources by 2024.

With more than 6% of Mexico’s GDP coming from oil and gas, and 1.8% from the utilities sector, energy is one of the most important components of the economy. Historically, the country has been largely dependent on its oil exports, which have made up a large part of the public budget for several decades. Nonetheless, the decline in production...

Mexico is the world’s leading beer exporter, producing 86m hectolitres (hl) per year, worth $20bn. The country has topped the list of beer exporters for the past six years, thanks to surging international demand for brands such as Corona Extra, Modelo, Sol and Tecate, with exports growing 9% to reach around $2.4bn in 2014, according to the...

RETURN OF RISK AVERSION: During the last four months of 2014 emerging equity markets faced a strong decline. This was mainly due to foreign capital outflows, bolstered by a higher degree of risk aversion amongst investors and driven by the slump in oil prices, geopolitical uncertainty in Ukraine,...