They hiked gas prices in Mexico and they are having all kinds of protests over it.
US intelligence services issue warning over instability in Mexico
Report cites wealth divide and protectionist atmosphere as dangers for nation blighted by violence
Mexico 13 ENE 2017 - 06:55 EST
Mexico has entered a new political cycle. While US president-elect Donald Trump is ramping up economic pressure on the country, the economy has stagnated, the currency is in free fall, violence related to the drug trade refuses to go away, and domestic unrest over issues including a hike in gas prices continues to be a fact of life.
In this context, Mexican voters could take a left turn once the current president, the deeply unpopular Enrique Peña Nieto, finishes his current and final term, according to a new report from the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence, a bureau set up in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York to coordinate the operations of the country’s secret service agencies.
“With presidential elections in 2018 and Peña Nieto limited to one term, voters may lean toward a more leftist opposition that pushes to roll back reforms and trade deals if reforms do not reduce Mexico’s stark economic divide,” the office’s latest Global Trends report states in a clear allusion to Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his left-wing National Regeneration Movement, also known as Morena.
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