Nothing can shake AMLO’s fossil-fuel fixation
Mexico’s president is thwarting the development of renewable energy
THE PANDEMIC has given environmentalists some cause to cheer. Demand for fossil fuels has plunged. Dispatches of solar and wind energy are up a bit. In Mexico the weather is bright and breezy but the mood in the renewables industry is anything but. Instead of taking advantage of the pandemic to speed up the shift from oil to renewable energy, the country’s populist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is doing roughly the opposite.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Betting on black”
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