AMLO Dissuades Concerns About Potential Election Blackouts
The federal executive’s statements come following a series of blackouts across several Mexican states due to the country’s ongoing heatwave.
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Mexican Government Foresees Power Blackouts
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just weeks before the summer season begins and after the implementation of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) crackdown on private, green energy production, Mexico’s National Center for Energy Control (Cenace), which is in charge of controlling the electrical system, has announced that the country should brace for a series of widespread blackouts in
Read moreAMLO Tepidly Condemns Ukraine War, Says He Has Plan to Prevent Fuel Hikes
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After stating that Mexico is against any use of military force to resolve geopolitical disputes, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Thursday, Feb. 24, said that he “has a plan” to avoid fuel price hikes in Mexico stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “In terms of foreign policy, Mexico is going to continue promoting dialogue,
Read moreUS Admonishes Mexico’s ‘Dirty’ Energy Reform, AMLO Bites Back
By KELIN DILLON If passed, the controversial proposal to reform Mexico’s energy sector and give its control to the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) could skyrocket the country’s carbon emissions to 65 percent, warned the U.S. Department of Energy on Wednesday, Oct. 27. The constitutional changes proposed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) would see priority upload to
Read more32 Private Electricity Contracts at Risk
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposed electricity reform would nullify at least 32 existing contracts with private electricity generators, especially those of independent energy producers, which, according to data from Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), are valued at 1.6 trillion pesos. To put that in context, that sum would constitute enough money to
Read moreAMLO, Bartlett Send Message on Mexico’s Electricity Reform
By KELIN DILLON As widespread political debate over Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposed reform to the country’s electricity legislation, which would grant the state-owned electricity company, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), a 54 percent market share compared to 46 percent by the private sector, both AMLO and CFE CEO Manuel Bartlett Díaz have spoken publicly in its
Read moreNorth America’s (Virtual) New Era
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreLessons Learned from the Tex-Mex Electrical Outages
By RICARDO CASTILLO While here in Mexico, President Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Wednesday, March 3, was celebrating the 58 to 48 passage (with 22 abstentions) of his electricity reform bill the night before by the Senate, back in Texas the state government was busy issuing walking papers to nonprofit Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot) CEO Bill Magness, considered
Read moreThe Big Freeze: Time for US-Mexico Energy Cooperation
By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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