The controversial Secretary of Energy of Mexico, Rocío Nahle, will leave office to seek to be the first female governor of Veracruzthe fourth most populated state in the country and one of the most important economically due to its oil, fishing and port industry in the Gulf of Mexico.
Rocío Nahle is leaving, an extraordinary public servant, Secretary of Energy, we love her very much, she is a woman with convictions, a worker,” the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced this Wednesday.
Nahle, 59 years old and former employee of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), She has been responsible for executing López Obrador’s controversial energy policy and defending it before her main business partners.such as the United States, Canada and the European Union (EU).
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His main task was the construction of the Dos Bocas refinery, in Tabasco, in the southeast of the country, where the cost amounted to nearly 16,000 million dollars, double what López Obrador initially estimated.
And, although the president declared it inaugurated in July 2022, it still does not operate at its maximum capacity.
The feat of building a refinery was achieved in less than five years, which is not anything, those who know about this do understand what it is about, a refinery to process 340,000 barrels of oil per day, it is already producing and she was in charge , was responsible,” said the president.
It’s over (Nahle), it leaves this refinery producing and many other things, and now, before you ask me, I tell you that next week we are going to announce who is going to stay as Secretary of Energy, who is going to replace to Rocío,” he added.
As Secretary of Energy, Nahle faced the consultations that the partners of the Treaty between Mexico began last yearthe United States and Canada (T-MEC) for questioning López Obrador’s energy policy, which privileges Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) over private companies.
Considered one of the cabinet officials closest to López Obrador, Nahle is one of the bets of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) for the 2024 elections, in which, in addition to the presidency, she will compete for nine of the 32 state governments. from the country.
Politics must still win in Morena’s internal contest.
He has our full support, we are not going to get involved in the electoral part, that is not our responsibility,” López Obrador commented.
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