AMLO’s energy populism after six months

What will the next 6-12 months of energy populism bring? The answers include a lot of reality checks to AMLO’s ambitious agenda.

No matter what pragmatism President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador shows in other policy areas, Hxagon’s analysis remains that he is a committed populist and nationalist on energy issues.

The president views Lazaro Cardenas’s nationalization of the energy sector in the 1930’s as one of the great moments in Mexican history. AMLO is also shaped by his early …