By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF If Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform — which would prioritize the use of state-run carbon-based fuels over private, clean-sourced energy — passes, the federal budget could lose up to 261 billion pesos in 2022, according to the Center for Economic and Budgetary Research (CIEP), Mexico’s top independent thinktank. In
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Don´t expect to seen any great changes occur during the second half of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year mandate. Based on what he has done so far, it is pretty clear that the next three years of AMLO’s leftist administration will follow the same strategy as it has up until now: social
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
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By KELIN DILLON According to new data, Mexico’s state-owned electric company, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), has increased its generation costs by 23 percent while in operation under the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). While the average cost in CFE plants stood at 1,508 pesos per megawatt hour in January 2019, the price tag had shot
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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, Nov. 3, a number of U.S. congressmen protested against Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform in a letter to U.S. government officials, saying that the proposal would violate international treaties like the United States–Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and is discriminatory against both private investment initiatives and cleanly sourced energy. U.S. Republican members
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By KELIN DILLON If Mexico’s controversial proposed reform to give carbon-based energy priority to the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) reaches passage, the CFE will be required to heighten its budget and subsequently “charge a bill” to the Mexican government or the shift will likely result in blackouts, revealed a study by the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO). The reform
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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
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By KELIN DILLON One of Mexico’s ejidos, a piece of land commonly owned and farmed by the surrounding native community, won a major battle for its livelihood when federal judges granted an amparo (habeas corpus appeal) against the under-construction $550 million Tula-Villa de Reyes gas pipeline going through Jilotepec, State of Mexico (Edoméx), preventing its further construction through the ejido’s
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The question that everyone in Mexico should be asking themselves is whether ordinary citizens are more interested in subsidizing, with their own paychecks and a reduced quality in their public services, an ideologized concept of national sovereignty as purported by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his so-called Fourth Transformation (4T), or paying less for
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