Mexico Responds to u.s. Newspaper Criticism of the Country’s “Rota” Economy · Global Voices
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The Mexican Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) responded in a statement to The Economist, after it published an article entitled “The Broken Economy of Mexico.” In the statement, Hacienda stressed that characterizing the Mexican economy as something broken “magnifies recent cyclical events and diminishes importance both to external shocks and structural strengths.” The Economist article, published on March 26, points out that although …
The agency detailed that tariffs had a material and quantifiable impact, especially in exposed sectors such as the automotive industry, which overall slowed by around 0.8 percentage points to GDP growth.
The Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) does not believe that the economy in Mexico is “broken” as The Economist pointed out in an article he published on March 26, 2026. After the United Kingdom media assured that Claudia Sheinbaum is concerned about the zero growth of the economy in Mexico, SHCP rejected this by giving arguments about the decline.SHCP defends the economy in Mexico after criticism in The EconomistThe way in which The E…
The Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) responded to the article published by The Economist, which addresses the alleged weakening of the Mexican economy. According to the federal unit, the analysis entitled “Mexico’s breaken economy” is incomplete and, therefore, incorrect, by omitting various key factors of the current economic context. According to the publication, Mexico is going through a period of low growth, with a rise of just 0…
The Ministry of Finance rejected the diagnosis of “broken economy” published by The Economist, considering that it omits key factors of external origin, while omitting recent social advances and structural changes, in a context of slowdown that the government qualifies as cyclical.
Reading time approx.: 1 minutes, 53 secondsThe Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) rejected the characterization of the Mexican economy as "rota", raised by The Economist, by ensuring that this reading oversizes the effects of the recent slowdown and minimizes both the external factors and the structural strengths of the country. In its response, the dependence maintained that the moderation of growth in 2025 should be understood as par…
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