Continuity of Mexico’s Energy Reform at Risk as AMLO Doubles Down on Threats

摘要

Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has sent a memorandum to energy sector regulators underlining his government’s commitment to undo changes made during the previous administration while continuing to strengthen state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and state utility Comision Federal de Elec- tricidad (CFE). The eight-page memorandum, reviewed by NGI’s Mexico GPI, was dated July 22. It explicitly criticizes the 2013- 2014 landmark energy reform, arguing that it served only to prop up “private businesses and corrupt politicians.”