Voices of Mexico no. 97

Our Voice

During the first four-month period of 2014, Mexico’s foreign policy agenda was crisscrossed with several particularly significant events. Among them were the twentieth anniversary of nafta coming into effect, the commemoration of seven decades of diplomatic relations with Canada, and Mexico’s hosting of the North American Leaders’ Summit.

Undoubtedly, all this caught the attention of the national media and public opinion, and in the background was the fact that on Mexico’s domestic political scene, enormously important debates were already taking place in light of the reforms President Enrique Peña Nieto promoted in strategic spheres like education, telecommunications, politics, and energy.

While the central objective of all these reforms was to make a structural turn that would change not only laws but institutions, we will only be able to measure their efficacy in light of their implementation in the medium term.