MXPE Weekly Essentials

Political dynasties against nepotism and reelection, the fight for housing, car exports down while production’s up, and other highlights in Mexican politics, policy, and markets from the past week.

President Claudia Sheinbaum has promised that her next bout of reforms will tackle nepotism in electoral politics and will ban reelection at any level of government. On the surface these seem like decent propositions, but as always, Mexico’s party political system has a way of making the clear murky.