On The RiskMap Radar: Mexico Votes, The G7 Meets and Africa's New Free Trade Zone

LONDON – Mexico’s June 7 midterm elections pose a test to President Enrique Peña Nieto and the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). In the first half of his term Peña Nieto made remarkable headway on much needed institutional reforms—particularly in energy, telecommunications and education. But in the largest electoral test since those reforms, PRI and the president have been dogged by persistent security challenges in large swaths of the country and by high-profile corruption...