Mexico’s energy reforms will damage the economy and the rule of law
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants to turn the clock back to the 1970s
TO HEAR MEXICO’S president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, tell the tale, the situation is dire and there is no time to waste. The reforms to the energy industry his predecessor helped push through in 2014 are causing “grave damage”; the constitutional amendments he has presented to the Congress will “rescue” Mexico.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Back to the disco era”
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