Canning Insights

Creating economic development and growth strategies to deal with migration and change in Central America

Which López Obrador will govern Mexico?

Written evidence submitted by Canning House to the Foreign Affairs Committee enquiry on Global Britain and South America

Odebrecht aftershocks still shaking region

It has been a bumper year for elections across Latin America, and the resounding message from the constituency has been a rejection of the traditional and mainstream. An electorate disillusioned with a corrupt ruling class and fed up of waiting for promised solutions to perennial problems that never materialise has used its vote to bring to power candidates espousing radical and populist policies; from the Left in Mexico and the Right in Brazil.

López Obrador’s security and economic strategies raise questions