In this last letter, the senators ask the United States administration to make public its position on the Mexican president’s energy reform and make this problem a priority in the discussion. “We urge the Biden administration to strongly express our concern about President López Obrador’s damaging fossil fuel agenda.”
Last November, Ken Salazar, the US ambassador to Mexico, made a brief and diplomatic statement on the reform that has been publicly discussed since last Monday. “We are looking to see if there are any ways that we can reach a resolution. I don’t know if that’s possible,” said the Democrat about the legislative changes that would reverse most of what was agreed with the 2013 reform.
On Monday, Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported during his morning conference at the National Palace that this week he will receive Jennifer Granholm, Secretary of Energy of the United States, with whom there are no “prohibited” issues, so – he advanced – he would even discuss the electricity reform . In the letter, the congressmen ask the US representative to address Mexico’s reform initiative during her next meeting with the Mexican government.
The Mexican reform initiative would produce an increase in the use of fossil fuels as a result of the greater use of plants owned by the state-owned CFE, due to a change in the order of dispatch of electricity generating plants.
And beyond the use of fossil fuels, the four congressmen say they are concerned about the possible cancellation of concessions for strategic minerals, such as lithium and copper. “[La reforma] it goes against the historically strong economic relationship between Mexico and the United States,” the letter says.