Past events

Mexico's energy sector is open for business. Canning House in collaboration with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Mexican Chamber of Commerce, the Department for International Trade,  Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos,  ProMéxico and  Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores are delighted to welcome you to a conference on the oil and gas sector in Mexico. It will focus on the Mexican Energy Reform and the opportunities it brings to UK companies.

The next Canning Paper will focus on the predicament currently affecting Venezuela, taking an in-depth analysis of the country’s economy, and political and social situation. The paper will also consider potential scenarios and implications such as how the policies currently being pursued by the radical leftist PSUV faction will pan out; factional infighting within the PSUV; and opposition winning power –either as a result of a military coup or by electoral means in the December 2018 election.

Twenty-five years ago, with the signing of the Peace Accords, El Salvador ended a protracted internal conflict and set in place the institutional architecture needed to build a sustained peace.  To reflect on the legacy of the Agreements, and looking ahead to the future, a panel of five young Salvadorans will share their visions for the way forward.

The new series Thinking Ibero-America invites personalities from this vast cultural region and British experts to share and discuss their visions. The first instalment brings together Mexican novelist Èlmer Mendoza, a representative of the so-called narco-literature, and Dr. Peter Watt, a Hispanist from the University of Sheffield who specialises in human rights and organised crime.