Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
MEXICO’s corporate lobby has hit out at government measures to promote publicly owned electricity as a response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Energy Ministry said that the need to ensure reliable electricity supply justified new rules promoting the state-owned electricity company and suspending production at a number of privately owned suppliers. The move prompted protests from the EU and Canada at the weekend that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was “threatening foreign investment in the energy sector.”
The steps include guaranteeing income for the state electric-power provider and boosting consumption of oil stockpiles.
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports on TUC Congress discussions on how to confront the far right and rebuild the left’s appeal to workers
