End of preview - This article contains approximately 1074 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Weekly Report - 6 November 2014 (WR-14-44)
MEXICO: Supreme court rejects referendum on energy reform
Mexico’s supreme court (SCJN) ruled on 30 October that it was unconstitutional for a referendum to be held on the country’s seminal energy reform which opens the way for private investment in the oil industry and ends the 76-year monopoly of the state oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex). The ruling is a big boost for the government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto, which pushed the reform through the federal congress last year, and a big blow to Mexico’s Left, which had presented two separate initiatives, gathering millions of signatures in support of a referendum on the matter.
- Path cleared for Ecuador’s Correa to serve indefinitely
- VENEZUELA: Not everyone believes in Saint Nicolás
- ECUADOR-PERU: Deepening integration for peace and prosperity
- TRACKING TRENDS
- BRAZIL: Dealing with the PMDB
- BRAZIL: Neves returns to senate vowing tireless opposition
- BRAZIL: Tough decisions expected in second term
- ARGENTINA: Government denounces rumours of debt negotiations
- PARAGUAY: State promises action after high-profile murder
- TRACKING TRENDS
- MEXICO: Supreme court rejects referendum on energy reform
- TRACKING TRENDS
- NORTHERN TRIANGLE: Boosting development to ease child migrant concerns
- TRACKING TRENDS
- Flores case takes new turn in El Salvador
- Quotes of the week