Structural reforms approved in Mexico

On August 11, Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto approved the final versions of energy reform legislation, concluding a series of 11 economic, political and social structural reforms proposed by his government, an achievement unprecedented in the nation’s history. Peña Nieto first proposed these reforms in December 2012, at the start of his term, promising they would bring economic and employment growth, less poverty and a reduction of the economic and social gap between the super-rich 1…