AMLO Risks Long US-Mexico Trade Spat by Insisting on Energy Policy
- US trade can’t cost Mexico its dignity, Lopez Obrador says
- US, Canada filed complaint against AMLO’s nationalist measures
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, left, with his counterparts Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau in 2021.
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US and Canadian companies have been clamoring for action against Mexico’s nationalist energy policies, but the trade complaint their countries filed this week could lead the North American region down a dangerous road.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as AMLO, has made strengthening Mexico’s state energy companies at the expense of private firms the hallmark of his administration, and there’s no sign he’ll give in enough to satisfy his neighbors.