The Mexican government recently launched the Mexico Plan (Plan México), a six-year strategy in collaboration with the federal government and the private sector intended to promote economic growth in Mexico....more
2/10/2025
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On February 5, 2024, President López Obrador sent the Reform Initiative to the Chamber of Deputies. This, in turn, was submitted to the United Commission of Constitutional and Energy Matters for review....more
The Situation: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ("AMLO") sponsored a bill aimed at modifying Mexico's Electric Industry Law (the "EIL Reform Bill") in order to strengthen Mexico's state-owned utility (Comisión...more
2/20/2024
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Last year, Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ("AMLO") began a series of efforts aimed at reforming Mexico's electricity sector in a manner that would reverse the rights granted to private investors in 2013 (the...more
On September 30, 2021, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent the Reform Initiative to the House of Representatives and the United Commission of Constitutional and Energy Matters for review and plenary voting....more
The Situation: The front-runner in Peru’s Presidential run-off election, Pedro Castillo, has vowed to extract substantially more in payments from mining companies, renegotiate tax stabilization agreements, or potentially even...more
On March 26, 2021, Mexico President López Obrador sent a bill to Congress to modify the country's hydrocarbons law (the "Draft Bill").
Under the Draft Bill, (i) the granting of import, commercialization, and distribution...more
The Situation: In March 2021, the reform to the Mexican Electricity Industry Law (the "Electricity Reform") came into effect. It is a material modification of the sector rules that attracted national and foreign investment to...more
On March 31, 2017, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources published general administrative provisions in the Official Gazette of the Federation. These administrative provisions establish the guidelines for...more