OPINION By KELIN DILLON After a brutal rebuff of his constitutional energy reform by opposition members of Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies this past April, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is on a quest for vengeance against these so-called “traitors of the nation” – a warpath, it seems, that will now put opponents to the energy reform, both politicians
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite the fact that a Mexican federal court last month granted a legal injunction to the Spanish energy firm Iberdrola that would allow it to continue operating its Dulces Nombres power plant in Pesquería, Nuevo León, and requiring that the country’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) reconnect it to the national grid, the CFE has
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OPINION By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Failing to point out, protest or become indignant at the illegal behavior and actions of public servants, which we had come to believe was a thing of the past, is the new norm that is giving credence to the thesis of authoritarian and caudillista regression in Mexico, supported by an exacerbated populism expressed to describe
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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, March 1, the cooling towers of Mexico’s state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) thermoelectric plant in Mérida, Yucatán, collapsed in an incident facility workers say was triggered by a lack of maintenance. Ironically, the plant’s structural failure comes amid Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) repeated talk-ups of CFE infrastructure as the executive looks to
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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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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 KELIN DILLON Just one day after Mexico’s head of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), Manuel Bartlett, claimed that private-sector energy providers would not be compensated for contracts potentially cancelled by the country’s proposed electricity reform, National Regeneration Movement (Morena) Senator Ricardo Monreal on Saturday, Oct. 16, urged the CFE and its officials to remain “prudent” about the goals of
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By KELIN DILLON Officials from Mexico’s Business Coordinating Council (CCE) have come forward to dismiss the Mexican government’s purported lies surrounding its proposed electric reform, saying in a statement on Tuesday, Oct. 12, that their intentions “are guided by ideology and not by technical expertise and rigor.” The CCE’s head Carlos Salazar Lomelín pointed to Secretary of Energy Rocío Nahle
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By KELIN DILLON As widespread political debate over Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) proposed reform to the country’s electricity legislation, which would grant the state-owned electricity company, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), a 54 percent market share compared to 46 percent by the private sector, both AMLO and CFE CEO Manuel Bartlett Díaz have spoken publicly in its
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