Investment decisions
Riskop insights for teams deciding where to invest in, expand or keep an operation in Mexico.
Stay or leave a border corridor in northeast Mexico
An export manufacturer with two plants in a border corridor in northeast Mexico spent months asking whether it should leave. Its exposure sat in the channels that connect a plant to its surroundings: workers, suppliers, transportation, labor representation and local permits. This anonymized case shows how that question turned into written rules.
Topics: Plant security, Export manufacturing, Investment decisions
Four layers to check before investing in a site in Mexico
Before investing in a site in Mexico, there are four layers to check: legal, environmental, community and narrative. Law firms handle the first two, and they almost always get reviewed. The other two are settled in the field, and they are the ones that tend to stop a project that had everything in order.
Topics: Investment decisions, Social license, Political risk
What Tecozautla and Las Dunas say about social license in Mexico
Between July and October 2026, two projects in Mexico stopped for reasons no permit covered: a solar park in Tecozautla, Hidalgo, after an Indigenous consultation, and the Las Dunas development in Chuburná Puerto, Yucatán, after citizen complaints, a shutdown by the federal environmental enforcement agency and a court injunction. What they share and what to check.
Topics: Social license, Energy transition, Investment decisions