Mexico’s highest court said the reform’s prioritization of the Federal Electricity Commission violates the right to free market competition and the country’s transition toward renewable energies
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Apparently unaware the fact that Mexican law still provides for a separation of powers and that the judicial system does not take orders from the executive branch, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Friday, Sept. 2, chided the nation’s Supreme Court (SCJN) justices for not approving and rubberstamping the decisions and reforms made by his government.
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By MARK LORENZANA According to former negotiators and specialists in a report by Mexican daily newspaper El Universal on Sunday, July 24, Mexico specifically violated Chapters 14, 15, 22 and 32 of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). When the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) accepted Chapters 14, 15, 22 and 32 of the agreement — titled
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By MARK LORENZANA U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, on Wednesday, July 20, announced that the United States has requested dispute-settlement consultations with the Mexican government under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The consultations relate to certain measures by the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), specifically discriminatory energy policies that have violated provisions in the USMCA. According to
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By MARK LORENZANA According to experts, a shortage of water, gas and electricity in some Mexican states has caused limited investments in the country’s real-estate sector. Rafael Berumen, director of Colliers Mexico City, said that the scarcity of basic services in some areas of the country has caused retail, housing and industrial real-estate developers to reassess where to invest. One
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) prevented Spanish energy company Iberdrola from operating a wind farm in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato. Iberdrola had invested a total of $150 million in the wind farm. According to the CRE, its decision to stop the wind farm’s operations stemmed from a breach in permit that originally allowed Iberdrola to
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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
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By KELIN DILLON Just days after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform was blocked from passing in Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, the constitutionality of his Electricity Industry Law (LIE) has now been called into question once again as it has been revealed that the head of the Supreme Court (SCJN), Arturo Zaldívarm incorrectly registered the votes
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The fact that members of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party have no qualms about bending — and even breaking — the law in order to achieve their goals is nothing new. We already saw this evidenced in how blatantly the party violated electoral laws in order to promote
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Just hours after Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) declared President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) electricity reform bill “constitutional” (in a bizarre four in favor-seven against vote that somehow favored the ayes over the nays), U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar late Thursday, April 7, warned that if the electrical reform promoted by the president
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