MXPE Weekly Essentials

Consequences, tax authority staff, centralising electricity, industrialising Oaxaca, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.

Chickens will always come home to roost. It has almost been a week since lockdown started in Culiacán, the capital of the northern state of Sinaloa. Violence between cartels and security forces has erupted after the kidnap and arrest in the US of erstwhile Sinaloa Cartel boss Ismael “el Mayo” Zambada. At the heart of most reporting sits Rubén Rocha, the…