The reference:
"México: http://www.economia.gob.mx/files/diagnostico_economia_mexicana.pdf";

Is a gobernment document for formal informational purposes and it obeys
a visual design (like a powrpoint presentation), it is not intended for
computer systems I'm listing the troubles with this document:

a) Numerical data is presented with one, two or three decimals, depending on 
the precision needed in the graph or paragraph. For day to day computational 
numerical presentations two digit is good enough, just the same as en_US.
b) The document arbitrarily use Monetary format without the thousand separator 
",", page 22 uses the notation 833,998 mdp (millions of pesos) without the $ 
symbol, but like the en_US we do use the $ symbol for money
c) Commonly the percentual values are good enough with %XX.x, math is math here 
and in china.

Latin American numerical keyboard uses the "." for decimal and it is
important for us because when we make calculations with this keyboard
its we use this key for fast typing, same as in en_US

Right now the locale is like the spaniard persons use it. We can use the
es_ES way (decimal"," & thousands".") only when we exchange documents
with en_ES country, but it is not very common.

In México as of Jan 2010 it was introduced an increment in tax, up to
16%, this value introduces troubles while calculating accounting
balances when using only 2 decimal digits, so since that date accounting
and monetary systems began to use 4 digit precision. Formatted monetary
values must include all 4 digits to avoid manual transcription errors or
precision errors during numerical methods.

For the same reason we also use 4 digits when exchanging currencies
(same as en_US): http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=USDMXN=X

This issue goes back to 2012, its time to make it right

See also:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/forms/v3r5m0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.form.designer.locales.doc/i_xfdl_r_formats_es_MX.html

http://lh.2xlibre.net/locale/es_MX/

http://www.localeplanet.com/icu/es-MX/

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