10 Challenges and Opportunities for Mexico’s New Administration

As Claudia Sheinbaum embarks on her presidency, she faces a tapestry of challenges intertwined with profound opportunities. The extent to which she can balance continuity with innovative approaches and reforms to governance could lead to lasting positive change for Mexico. How Sheinbaum navigates these issues will be pivotal in shaping the legacy of her administration.

Moises Marcos

10/2/20241 min read

Challenges Facing Claudia Sheinbaum from Day One
  1. Economy. Reduce the increasing fiscal deficit, boost investment, regulate the informal commerce, reinvent Pemex operating model and relief its parlous finances, invest in productive infrastructure, avoid volatility in foreign exchange rate, champion sustainable development initiatives, promote an agenda to boost tourism.

  2. Security, Violence and Rule of Law. Reduce the crime rate, address the rampant violence stemming from organized crime, define the secondary laws for the judicial reform.

  3. Healthcare. Prioritize public health initiatives, enhance medicines distribution system, address continuity of social programs, boost sports practice.

  4. Inequality. Increase GDP per capita, develop marginal areas, reduce the unemployment rate.

  5. Foreign Policy. Revisit relationship with the US, Spain and Latin America, reinforce confidence in foreign investors, renegotiation of USMCA in 2026, reclaim protagonism in the regional and global arena (UN, G20, OAS).

  6. Immigration. Control immigrants flow to US, strengthen identity with Mexicans in US.

  7. Domestic Policy. Digitalisation of the federal government, inclusion of all social strata, transparency, push for gender equality and combat gender-based violence, contingency funds policy, strengthen Mexico’s institutional profile.

  8. Education. Escalate places in the OECD education rankings, boost science.

  9. Climate Change. Fight climate change, lead transition to renewable energy, boost environment initiatives.

  10. Distinct Political Identity. Embody successfuly her own agenda.

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