Investors panicked after Mexico’s election. Were they right?
Claudia Sheinbaum takes over power on October 1st
The optimism is striking in Arcos Bosques, a posh mall-cum-office-complex in Mexico City. “I receive foreign investors every week that want to do more in Mexico,” beams Lorenzo Berho of Vesta, an industrial property company, from his shiny offices on the 28th floor.
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This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Awaiting the Sheinbaum effect”
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