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 THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Former Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Director Emilio Lozoya on Wednesday, Jan. 26, was denied a habeas corpus injunction against being held without bail and against any further warrants for his arrest. Lozoya, who has been held in prevention detention (jail without the possibility of bail) in the North Penitentiary since Nov. 3 on charges of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has set a deadline of 2024 for the nation to become self-sufficient in gasoline production, the country is severely lagging in the production of premium, high-octane gasoline, used by about 30 percent of all Mexican vehicles. Currently, Mexico’s state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) produces only 4
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial proposed electricity reform, which would prioritize the use of carbon-based fuels over clean and renewable alternatives, was the main topic of discussion on Friday, Jan. 21, when he met with U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm at the National Palace. “We see a great opportunity to work
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The cost of Mexico’s Dos Bocas refinery — one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s pet megaprojects — is expected to cost 40 percent more than previously estimated — some $3.6 billion more — and is unlikely to be completed before the government’s 2022 deadline, inside sources reported. Construction of the 340,000-barrel-per-day refinery is
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By KELIN DILLON In a two-page letter sent to U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm on Wednesday, Jan. 19, four senators from the U.S. Democratic Party urged President Joe Biden’s administration to break its silence and intervene in Mexico’s “harmful” energy policies, going on to ask the officials to prevent the passage of Mexican
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OPINION By THE WILSON CENTER MEXICO INSTITUTE Given the current political and social panorama in Mexico, there will be three major things to watch for in the months ahead regarding U.S.-Mexico relations: Migration As border apprehensions of undocumented migrants reach record levels, the Joe Biden and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administrations strive to collaborate to reduce the flow and
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF If President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform bill — which would prioritize the use of contaminating carbon-based sources over clean alternatives — passes in Congress, the use of sulfur-heavy bunker oil, or combustóleo, in Mexico could increase by up to 1,109 percent per year, according to the 21st Century Power Partnership
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s financially strapped state-run oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is slated to take control of the Deer Park refinery, located in Texas, on Thursday, Jan. 20, in accordance with a purchase agreement with the Anglo-Dutch transnational corporation Royal Dutch Shell, which currently owns half of the oil processing plant. In May of last year,
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XINHUA Mexico has requested a dispute resolution panel be set up under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to resolve differences with Washington in the interpretation of automotive content rules, the Mexican Economy Secretariat said Thursday, Jan. 6. “Mexico believes that a panel decision will provide confidence to the automotive industry for the benefit of the region’s competitiveness,” the secretariat said
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