Poll: 62% Say 'No' to Allowing Private Firms Into Mexico Oil Sector Hispanically Speaking News
go to original August 20, 2013

Americas Columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady on Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's plan to open up his country's energy sector to private investment. (WSJDigitalNetwork)

While accepting the need for reform of the energy sector, most Mexicans oppose opening state oil monopoly Pemex to private investment, a poll published Monday by capital daily El Universal shows.

Only 20 percent of the 1,000 adults surveyed by pollster Buendia & Laredo over the period Aug. 8-13 expressed support for the idea, which is a key element of the energy plans put forward by centrist President Enrique Peña Nieto and the main opposition conservative PAN party.

Sixty-two percent of respondents said “no” to allowing private participation in the oil sector, though the same proportion agreed that Pemex, the world’s fifth-leading crude producer, needs an overhaul.

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