By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, Aug. 10, Mexican Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro declared that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial reform to Mexico’s Electricity Industry Law (LIE) is unconstitutional and therefore should not proceed, calling it expensive and dirty in the process. Gómez Fierro previously froze the reform in March for further review on its constitutionality, much
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced his pursuit of three significant changes to the Mexican Constitution on Tuesday, June 15, focusing on reforms to the document’s electrical, electoral and military sections. López Obrador proposed constitutional electrical reform seeks to strengthen the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) so that standard users will not pay higher rates
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By KELIN DILLON Two federal judges froze the monopoly granted to Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) by reforms from the current government, led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), reverting Pemex back to the same levels of competition with the private sector as standard in 2014. AMLO’s National Regeneration Movement (Morena) introduced its final reforms to the Hydrocarbons
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By KELIN DILLON Following an eight-hour debate, Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies approved Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) outsourcing bill without a single change, sending it to the Senate for further analysis and ratification. Much of the eight-hour debate was taken up rejecting the 38 reservations and proposals for modification from various parliamentary groups, after which the vote was
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By KELIN DILLON After Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic’s (FGR) acknowledgement of (and subsequent lack of follow up on) crimes committed by the country’s customs officials, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) turned the blame onto governors from the nation’s northern states for their complicity in the alleged crimes. From 2020 until February of this year, the FGR’s
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) introduced a reform to Mexico’s hydrocarbon law on March 26 that would force energy companies to comply with a minimum storage company and give the government power to revoke permits given to private companies, which would controversially expropriate all fuel-related matters from the private sector to the federal government. The
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By KELIN DILLON The controversial new changes to Mexico’s electricity law will now see the nation’s Secretariat of Energy (Sener) and Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) review more than 20,000 permits granted to private individuals and enterprises in the energy sector under previous presidential administrations. The review will look into permits to operate and open service stations outside of the Petróleos
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By KELIN DILLON Following the decision of Mexican District Judge Juan Pablo Gómez Fierro to suspend Mexico’s controversial electricity reform on Thursday, March 11, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) announced he would order an investigation into Gómez Fierro’s suspension of the electric law, accusing the judge of working for private companies and showing, once again, that anyone who does
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said during his daily press conference on Friday, Jan. 8, that independent organizations in Mexico have not been fulfilling their functions properly and must be reformed. AMLO proposed that all autonomous organizations be absorbed by the Mexican government to “make sure they execute their roles to the fullest extent.” “These
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