Lopez Obrador Accuses President Pena Nieto of Treason Over Energy Overhaul Agencia EFE
go to original February 6, 2014

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (left) speaks after filing a formal criminal complaint for treason against President Enrique Peña Nieto in connection with an overhaul of the country's oil industry. (EFE)

MEXICO CITY - Leftist stalwart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday launched a legal offensive against the recently approved overhaul of Mexico's oil industry, formally accusing President Enrique Peña Nieto of treason.

"We will reverse all of these anti-people, submissive measures. That is the objective of our movement, of our struggle," he said after filing a criminal complaint with the Attorney General's Office.

The quixotic legal gambit seeks a Senate trial of Peña Nieto for having agreed to "the surrender of oil to foreign oil companies."

The constitutional overhaul promoted by the president will allow private companies to develop Mexico's crude reserves for the first time since the late 1930s, when then-President Lazaro Cardenas nationalized the petroleum industry.

Lopez Obrador, a two-time presidential candidate, said he has evidence that Peña Nieto negotiated the terms of the energy overhaul with private interests in the months between his July 2012 election and his inauguration in December of that year.

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