Mexican business leaders during the Peña Nieto administration

Abstract

Based on an examination of key facts from both the economic and electoral area, this paper looks at relations between the business sector and the  Mexican state during the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto. Beginning with a historical analysis that brings us up to the present day, the relation between business leaders and PAN governments are studied, which in turn is directly linked to the transition to democracy in Mexico in the year 2000. The center of this analysis is the relationship between business leaders and the Peña Nieto government in light of the most significant reform to the business sector: the fiscal and energy reform, without disregarding labor and education reform. The text concludes with a characterization of the relation between the business sector and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, both as a candidate and during his first year in office as president.