Tuesday, July 03, 2018

América Móvil expecting López Obrador to allow it to enter triple play

The next government will have the features of a center-left but with a high share of continuity in the economic sphere. In the ICT sector, there will be no changes in structural reforms although Carlos Slim's company is expected to have fewer restrictions to compete in the television market.

The triumph of center-left Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in the presidential elections in Mexico will not mean a sudden change in the political and economic direction of the country. After two frustrated attempts in 2006 and 2012, the former mayor of Mexico City won the elections with a moderate proposal. The program of the Morena (National Regeneration Movement) -the force that led the triumphant electoral coalition- is far from being likened to the different parties and coalitions of the left that came to power through the electoral process in several Latin American countries in the last decades: he does not plan to nationalize any strategic sector, not even the energy sector, nor to carry out political reforms that decentralize state powers to organizations far from representative democracy.

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