Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Implementing Reforms in Mexico

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto joins CFR Co-Chairman Robert E. Rubin to discuss Mexico’s reform progress. Having passed wide-ranging reforms in the areas of labor, education, finance, tax, telecommunications, energy, and governmental structure, Peña Nieto describes the process of implementing these reforms and their intended results. Economic growth, he says, is forecast to reach 2.7 percent by the end of 2014, with a projection of 3.7 percent in 2015. He highlights a major shift in energy policy, opening up Mexico’s energy industry to competition. On the issue of transnational crime and security policy, he cites positive statistics in arrests of cartel leaders and a drop in the murder rate, adding that security remains a top priority.

Inaugurated in 1969, the Russell C. Leffingwell Lecture was named for Russell C. Leffingwell, a charter member of the Council who served as its president from 1944 to 1946 and as its chairman from 1946 to 1953. The lecture is given by a distinguished foreign official, who is invited to address Council members on a topic of major international significance.

Speaker:
Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico

Presider:
Robert E. Rubin, Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Fomer Secretary of the U.S. Treasury

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