News / Mexican rail seizures give near-shoring interests pause for thought

30/05/2023

Mexico has attracted lively interest in the wake of a trend to diversify supply chains away from China, but recent moves by President Lopez Obrador are likely to stir second thoughts among would-be investors.

He ordered the seizure of some 120km of a private railway and ...

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Andrew Bayuk
May 30, 2023 at 2:25 pm
This sets a very bad precedence and indicator to the entire private free enterprise of businesses in Mexico and external investors interested in expanding their business and investing in Mexico.

A government seizure of private land and infrastructure in particular is telling and should raise pause and question of a business plans and interest moving forward.

This is quite unfortunate with such promise in Mexico, but these types of moves are what you’d expect to find in a totalitarian communist regime.

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