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LANGUAGE: Spanish is the official language and is spoken throughout the country. However, there are as many as 62 dialects, the most widely spoken being Nahuatl, Maya and Mixteco. Though English is spoken in many places, especially among government officials and high-ranking executives, it is...

The year 2013 was one of legal reforms in Mexico. It was possible to enact key changes thanks to the willingness of the main political forces in the country to agree to them, as expressed in the Mexico Pact (“Pacto por México”). Since President Enrique Peña Nieto took office in 2012, his government has put in place structural...

On October 31, 2013, the Mexican Congress approved a number of tax amendments for the 2014 period, which went into effect on January 1, 2014. As a result of the different measures approved, the federal government expects to receive revenue of around MXN4.4trn ($341.9bn), which is 12.82% above the 2013 revenue budget.

Despite education spending in line with OECD standards, the quality of Mexico’s school system has lagged significantly behind the organisation’s other members. A powerful teachers’ union has traditionally stood in the way of efforts to reform the sector. Having made considerable advances in extending coverage, particularly at the basic...

The introduction of the Popular Health Insurance Scheme (Seguro Popular de Salud, SPS) in 2003 redefined Mexico’s health sector by providing public coverage, albeit limited, to half of the population, which previously had no protection. In a little more than a decade since the introduction of the SPS, Mexico has made vast strides in extending...

Generating revenues of $13.6bn in 2012, Mexico’s pharmaceutical industry is among the 15 largest in the world, second only to Brazil ($16bn) in Latin America. According to ProMéxico, the country’s investment promotion agency, the pharmaceutical industry accounts for 1.2% of GDP, 7.2% of manufacturing GDP and generates 80,000 direct and 300,000...