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Mexico & Nafta - January 2014 (ISSN 1741-444X)
Efforts by the Left to revoke energy reform unlikely to prosper
President Enrique Peña Nieto won a major victory on 20 December 2013 when he signed into law his pivotal energy reform. While the text of the reform maintains that “in all cases, hydrocarbons in the subsoil are the nation’s property”, the changes to constitutional Articles 25, 27 and 28 allow for private capital to have a much greater role in the national energy sector, via profit- and production-sharing agreements, as well as licenses (or concessions) under which companies will be able to manage the resources and pay royalties and taxes to the government.
- Efforts by the Left to revoke energy reform unlikely to prosper
- After a dismal first year in office, Mexico City’s mayor gives signs of positive change
- Congress approves sweeping politico-electoral reform
- Engaging with the Zapatistas
- Plane crash puts Michoacán self-defence groups in the spotlight
- What now?
- Media revelations put US security involvement in Mexico back in spotlight