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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By KELIN DILLON Just one day after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform was blocked from passing by opposition members of the Chamber of Deputies, López Obrador returned with a new initiative – legislation nationalizing Mexico’s natural lithium supply – for the parliamentary chamber to vote on during its Monday, April 18, session. Never one to
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By KELIN DILLON Throughout the first three years of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term, more than 63,310 people in Mexico have been displaced from their homes due to violence across the country, said the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (CMDPDH) on Sunday, Feb. 27. “Despite the fact that this is preliminary
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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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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 As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electric reform continues to receive pushback, including the recent rejection of the proposal by 18 members of the Institutional Revolution Party (PRI), the executive and his own party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) have acquiesced to being open toward changes to the reform. Despite this newfound receptivity toward
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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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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Action Party (PAN) and Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), which, along with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) make up the Va Por México coalition, called out the PRI for not presenting further roadblocks to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) electric reform alongside them in a private meeting held on Monday, Oct. 4. The
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By KELIN DILLON While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is expected to present Mexico’s 2022 Budget to the nation’s Congress on Wednesday, Sept. 8, the country is not expected to have any significant advances in public spending due to a number of debilitating economic factors brought on by the effects of the year-and-a-half-long covid-19 pandemic. During 2020 and
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s in-power National Regeneration Movement (Morena), in an effort led by the party’s Senator Ricardo Monreal, will now look to reform the country’s General Council of the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF), removing all its current members in the process. “It is a very ambitious reform in electoral
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