By KELIN DILLON As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) intention to reform Mexico’s energy sector to favor state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has resulted in the reduction of fuel import permits and the cancellation of storage operations, private and foreign companies alike have been forced to reignite a working relationship with Pemex in order to obtain sufficient
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The Latin America Advisor asks six leading Mexico experts
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A federal judge in the northern Mexican industrial city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, warned Monday, Feb. 14, that denying permit renewals to the Spanish-owned Iberdrola energy company would have “devastating consequences” for the companies it supplies. Iberdrola, one of several private Spanish-owned energy firms that have borne the brunt of President Andrés Manuel López
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced Thursday, Feb. 10, that his administration will finally address the long-stagnated issue of financial compensation for workers who were fired from the state-run Luz y Fuerza (LyFC) electricity company company in 2009, which was replaced by the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE). Under a new program, AMLO
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By KELIN DILLON In the midst of controversies surrounding Mexico’s energy sector, U.S. Special Climate Envoy John Kerry visited the country on Wednesday, Feb. 9 to meet with Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to discuss the two nations’ heavily intertwined environmental policies and pursuits. Considering López Obrador’s pending initiative to give
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By KELIN DILLON Days after U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar publicly stated on Thursday, Feb. 3, that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) “is right” about Mexico’s energy sector requiring reforms, the Wall Street Journal’s Mary Anastasia O’Grady published a column calling for Salazar’s removal from his post, claiming his vocal contradiction of President Joe Biden’s policies are worthy
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER If the cancellation of the construction of New Mexico City International Airport (NAICM) in Texcoco had devastating effects on the Mexican economy — due to the exorbitant cost (estimated by the government’s own Superior Audit offices as being somewhere between 184 billion pesos and 332 billion pesos) but also because of the dubious signal it
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By KELIN DILLON Following a Dec. 17 decision by Mexican Secretary of Energy Rocío Nahle, the nation’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) now plans to revoke the self-supply permit it had previously issued to Energía Eólica del Sur (EES) to run Latin America’s largest wind farm out of El Espinal and Juchitán, Oaxaca, as part of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Although Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform bill — which would favor the use of contaminating fossil fuels over cleaner renewable alternatives — has yet to pass Congress, the state-run Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) is already prioritizing the distribution of electric power from its own plants over private sources, even
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The democratic political life of Mexico, as in many other Latin American nations, is relatively young. In the last decade, a new chapter began in the construction of Mexican politics after the sudden arrival to the presidency of a newly created party. Breaking through and eventually displacing the parties that historically held political hegemony
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