Mexico’s President: “We Won’t Produce Beer in the North – That’s Over”

Dear Client: Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (nicknamed AMLO) surprised everybody in the beer world by declaring Monday that beer production should halt in drought-stricken northern Mexico. The comments were made during his daily press conference.  He qualified by saying “this is not to say we won’t produce any more beer; it’s to say that we won’t produce beer in the north. That's over.” Both Constellation and Heineken operate breweries in northern Mexico which export the majority of their