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For the outline of his energy project, the virtual president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced that Manuel Bartlett will be in charge of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) in the new administration that will start on the 1st December. 19659002] Providing cheap electricity to the Mexican people is one of the supposed goals Bartlett in the announcement of the nomination which included – as planned – Rocío Nahle at the head of the Secretariat for Energy and Octavio Romero Oropeza at the General Directorate of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex).
Bartlett, Senator for the Labor Party, said that among the tasks he will also list the shoring up of electricity production and will examine the entire structure of
The former governor of Puebla also stated that all the capabilities of the CFE should be reviewed in order to strengthen and strengthen it, so that He attended meetings on the subject. He added that he was waiting for the official appointment of López Obrador as president to begin the delivery-reception process and to dialogue with the dependency managers.
Bartlett was Secretary of Public Education (1988-1992), as well as the head of the Ministry of the Interior during the administration of Miguel de la Madrid. He was PRI's pre-candidate for the presidency in an internal process. He was also Secretary General of the National Executive Committee of the PRI in 1981.
AMLO launches a Millionaire Energy Project
The virtual president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced an investment of 304 billion pesos to strengthen the energy sector and increase oil production, and named Octavio Romero Oropeza As the next director of Pemex .
After meeting with the next Secretary of Energy, Rocío Nahle, López Obrador announced his plan consisting of four programs to "save the energy sector". 19659005] The first program will invest 75 billion pesos to drill new oil wells and increase production from 1.9 million barrels per day currently extracted to 2.5 million in two years.
"In 14 years, we have lost 1.5 million barrels a day, so we are going to intervene urgently," said Lopez Obrador, who will assume the presidency on 1 December.
The second plan will consist of "rehabilitating the six refineries" that exist in Mexico "to operate at 100% capacity in two years" with an investment of 49 billion pesos and thus avoid the risk of being damaged. having to buy gasoline in the
He also announced the construction of a seventh refinery next year at the oil port of Dos Bocas in Tabasco, which will cost 160 billion pesos in three years.
The new refinery and the rehabilitation of the others will fulfill the commitment we have made in the campaign, namely that in the middle of the six-year period, we will stop buying from it. Gasoline abroad and lower fuel prices, "said López Obrador. The fourth and final program will be to produce more electricity and stop the shutdown of existing plants and to "modernize the hydroelectric plants", an infrastructure that he considers "underused". 19659005] "It is to produce electricity with the dams that currently exist and reservoirs because it is cheap electricity," said López Obrador , which estimates that this program will cost 20 billion pesos.
"In general terms, we estimate an investment to save the energy sector 175 billion pesos for next year" in the four programs.
The next president confirmed that Rocío Nahle will be the Minister of Energy in his government and Octavio Romero Oropeza will be in charge of chairing Pemex.
The latter is an agronomist and trusted man of the next president whom he has accompanied throughout his political career, as when he was a senior government official of López Obrador. in front of the Mexican capital (2000-2005).
Pemex attributes losses to the exchange rate
Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) attributed the fall of the Mexican peso against the dollar losses of two thousand, 763 million dollars in the first half of the year , a figure that contrasts with the six thousand 472 million dollar profit in the same period of 2017.
Continuation of the relationship with private initiative
Rocío Nahle, who will serve as head of the Secretariat of the (Sener) energy in the next administration He stressed that the road to energy production in the country would continue, as well as continue the relationship with private initiative.
He commented that the refinery they plan to build in Tabasco is the most advanced project and even they have talks with the Mexican Petroleum Institute.
He added that the virtual elected president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said that the next government would be respectful of union life, because they were trained to organize and take care of workers' rights, but " the customs and customs of money that come and go without justification are over. "
He pointed out that" the excesses they went to the unions, to the hundreds of commissioners, who can not continue this way because There will be a reduction in bureaucratic spending, because that is what we need to invest in hydroelectric plants, in refineries and in exploration. "
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Wixárikas asks for help against narco
The wixárikas natives of Nayarit sought the support of the virtual elected president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), for the release of one of his fellow prisoners in Nayarit, supposedly for political reasons. The group demonstrated in front of the AMLO office in Colonia Roma, Mexico. The Wixárikas, among other demands, have asked for support to remove young people who, they denounced, enlist against their will in the ranks of drug trafficking. The dissidents, who complained about the treatment of the police in the country's capital, also demanded that the right to prior consultation of indigenous peoples be respected for the development of projects.
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