mexico city july 7 reuters  mexicos annual inflation accelerated in june to a level not seen since early 2001 official data showed on thursday despite the central banks recently aggressive monetary tightening aimed at taming spiraling consumer prices mexican consumer prices rose 799 in the year through june the national statistics agency said slightly above a 795 consensus forecast of economists polled by reuters that was also far above the central banks target inflation rate of 3 plus or minus a percentage point and marked the highest level since january 2001 when mexicos 12month inflation stood at 811 consumer prices rose 084 in june according to nonseasonally adjusted figures ahead of a market forecast of a 081 increase the closely watched core index which strips out some volatile food and energy prices rose 077 during the month reporting by brendan oboyle and gabriel araujo editing by tomasz janowski