Mexico’s new government

Coming out swinging

Plans to improve security and schools

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Good!!!Starting even if I didn't vote for EPN because the PRI and because he looks a bit stupid sometimes.But we are a democracy and we have to support our President!!! Mr. EPN please do your best and the Mexicans many of them will change their minds about you!!!!


There is no way that Mexico will open the oil industry to the private sector. As mentioned here, it's part of the constitution and historically, it's imprinted in the mind of the mexicans that they own Pemex because they partially paid the money to buy it from the foreign companies in the 1930s. EPN (that is how we call Enrique Peña Nieto in Mexico) never promised to open Pemex to private investment, he spoke about associating with private companies as a form of hiring services. Many of us don't like EPN, I didn't vote for him, but he is our president and so far he's up to a good start.

Walker Rowe

The article did not mention breaking up the telephone and other monopolies. What happened to that?

zerge in reply to Walker Rowe

There are no telephone monopolies in Mexico. Telmex and Telcel´s services may suck, but if you don´t like them, you can move to other service. Likewise, if you have a few billion dollars lying around, you can set up your own telco in Mexico.
Don´t confuse "monopoly" with market dominance. Not the same thing.

zerge in reply to guest-inlasiw

The telecom industries of many countries are oligopolies; the economies of scale and economies of critical mass of the industry push towards such economic structure.

Just take a look at the tortuous story of the telecom industry in the US.


Too soon to judge, of course, but no doubt that Pena Nieto started with a whirlwind of action. The best beginning to an administration since that of Carlos Salinas in 1988.


Promises, promises. Nothing will happen. 20 oligarchs control everything.


What a weird last paragraph of your note.

The Pacto Por Mexico, a document signed by political forces, pretty much outlines what will happen in energy markets in Mexico: nothing.



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