Thursday, September 25, 2014

President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico

President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico.
Credit Jason Szenes/European Pressphoto Agency
President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico is expected to promote a series of steps to modernize and remake the Mexican economy and raise the standard of living when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday morning.

He has won approval to let foreign companies and investors hold a stake in Mexico’s national oil company, raising the prospect to vastly increase slackening production. He has rewritten the telecommunications law with a goal to break up the near monopoly of a few private telephone and television companies. And he has undertaken changes in the education system to lessen the grip unions hold in schools, and to improve education in Mexico, where students are far behind those in countries of similar size and levels of development. But Mr. Peña Nieto remains more popular abroad than at home, as polls show sinking approval numbers and growing impatience with the much-promoted reforms that have yet to meaningfully raise wages or the standard of living of ordinary Mexicans.

All worthy goals in my mind.

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