In this episode, Solange Marquez speaks with Luis Foncerrada and Guillermo García Alcocer about the repercussions of the Presidential Constitutional Reform Bill to the Mexican Power Market . This bill seeks to dismantle the electricity legal framework created after the 2013 Energy Reform and grants the CFE a dominant role at a regulatory and market level. How will it affect the Mexican energy market and the economy? What can companies do before it is approved? Are there legal instruments that companies might use to defend themselves?Luis Foncerrada holds a Ph.D. in Economics and is the Director of the Economy and Business School at the Mayab University in the Mexican State of Yucatan.  Guillermo García Alcocer is the former head of the Mexican Energy Regulator (CRE), He was the General Director of Industrial Development of Hydrocarbons in the Mexican Ministry of Energy. 

In this episode, Solange Marquez and Enrique Berruga analyze the outcomes of the 6th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) held in Mexico.  What are the actual chances of regional integration between Latin-American countries that do not even share the same political regimes? Is it possible without Canada and the U.S. on the table? Why Mexican Government invited Cuba and Venezuela? What was the purpose of inviting China's head of state, and how might that affect the relationship with the US?  Ambassador Enrique Berruga is the General Director of the Aspen Institute Mexico, former Mexican Ambassador and President of the Security Council at the United Nations.

In this episode, Solange Marquez speaks with Luis Rubio, chairman of the think tank Mexico Evalua and former Mexican Council on Foreign Relations chairman. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Halifax International Security Forum. They talk about Luis' latest book, The New Dispute Over the Future: Old Ideas for a Modern Mexico, and analyze the "transformation" proposal of President Lopez Obrador full of 20th-century solutions to 21st-century problems.

This week on Mexico In Focus, Solange Marquez sits down with Economist and Political Analyst Macario Schettino. Together, they discuss Mexico's political and economic changes after midterm and referendum elections, what we can expect in public policy, foreign investment, and the relationship with our trade allies, Canada and the United States.