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Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto’s reform agenda that includes legislation to end the monopoly of state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos faces delays due to a shake-up in the former ruling party’s leadership.
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Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla dismissed two more aides, including the head of the country’s counter-narcotics efforts, after questions arose about her use of a private jet to fly to Peru this month.
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A key aide to Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla resigned after chartering a flight from a businessman he said was involved in “questionable activities,” becoming the 15th minister to step down in three years.
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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s election win without the bulk of ethnic Chinese voters is set to pose the biggest test yet for the pro-Malay affirmative action policies instituted by his father more than three decades ago.
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Malaysia opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim plans to hold protest rallies around Malaysia after vowing to contest the results of 30 seats lost in the country’s May 5 election, enough to swing the vote.
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Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim struggled to swing voters in government strongholds where his own ethnic group is dominant, thwarting his ambition to take power from a ruling coalition he helped lead before his ouster in 1998.
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Mexico’s three biggest parties joined with President Enrique Pena Nieto to present a bill to spur bank lending and faster growth in an economy where credit availability lags the rest of Latin America.
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Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s administration must speed up a probe into the alleged purchase of votes in the July elections before a pact among the top parties to pass economic bills can resume, an opposition Senate leader said.
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Najib Razak was sworn in as Malaysia’s prime minister after his coalition won a mandate extending its 55-year rule, with stocks and the ringgit rallying even as Anwar Ibrahim’s opposition vowed to contest some results.
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Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto hopes to use U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to affirm one crucial theme: that his country is much more than the sum of its problems. During a whirlwind first 100 days, he has already pushed through significant reforms to strengthen Mexico’s notoriously mediocre educational system and to deliver Mexicans from costly and oppressive monopolies.
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