In the first week of September, President Elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, met with business chambers in the state of Nuevo León, a group of governors and appointed several new officials.
On Monday September 3rd, 2018 he announced that former Electoral Crimes Prosecutor Santiago Nieto would become the next head of the Financial Intelligence Unit at the Finance Secretary. This unit is in charge of investigating tax evasion and related crimes. Mr. Nieto received ample support from civil society organizations a year ago when he was strangely fired from his office (within the Attorney General’s Office) because he was investigating electoral crimes related to the Odebrecht scandal, where Brazilian firm supposedly bribed then Pemex head Emilio Lozoya to gain favors in the Peña Nieto administration. Then, the President Elect announced the three Undersecretaries for the Secretary of the Economy (the Mexican equivalent to the Department of Commerce). First, trade expert Luz María de la Mora was appointed Undersecretary of Foreign Trade, while Mr. Francisco Quiroga will be in charge of the Undersecretary of Mining and Mr. Ernesto Acevedo will be the new Undersecretary of Industry and Commerce. By midweek, AMLO traveled north to the border state of Nuevo León where he met with former presidential candidate, Governor Jaime Rodríguez ‘The Bronco’ and business chambers from that state to discuss how he plans to redirect resources towards investment projects (mainly infrastructure) and not to current expenses. He also met with the federal deputies from the Morena party (that control slightly over 50% of the Lower Chamber) to outline his policy priorities for the upcoming legislative period. Afterwards, he met with business chambers from the southern states of the country to discuss how he plans to highly invest in oil exploration infrastructure for Pemex to ‘rescue’ the energy sector from its current state. On Friday September 7th, the office of the President Elect informed that a young political scientist, Carlos Martínez, would become the head of the National Institute for Worker’s Housing, the biggest real-estate player in the country. It must be noted that the President Elect had previously informed that Juan Carlos Zentella was going to hold this position but his office gave no reason for the change. By the weekend, AMLO held a meeting with the governors (and some governor-elect) of the southeastern states of the country (Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco and Yucatán) to discuss his plans of creating the ‘Maya train’ –that will cross the entire Yucatán peninsula attempting to bring tourism from Cancun and the Mayan Riviera to other nearby states.
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Manuel Franco
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