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Judge Rules AMLO’s Electricity Reform Unconstitutional

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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, Aug. 10, Mexican Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro declared that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial reform to Mexico’s Electricity Industry Law (LIE) is unconstitutional and therefore should not proceed, calling it expensive and dirty in the process. Gómez Fierro previously froze the reform in March for further review on its constitutionality, much

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AMLO Aims to Renegotiate Energy Contracts Following Electric Reform

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By KELIN DILLON Following the approval of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform bill, López Obrador said Mexico would be rewriting existing contracts with electrical companies “to update them to the new reality.”  The bill gives Mexico’s state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) priority uploading of energy the also-state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) power grid, above private companies,

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