AMLO Vows to Block Mexico Reforms, Warns Oil Firms Simon Gardner - Reuters
go to original September 2, 2013

CATEMACO - Fiery Mexican leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has vowed to stop the government's energy and tax reforms and hopes to lead even bigger protests than when he brought central Mexico City to a stand still after narrowly losing the 2006 presidential election.

A colorful renegade and a former Mexico City mayor, Lopez Obrador accuses President Enrique Pena Nieto of trying to sell off Mexico's assets by seeking to lure foreign capital into the state-controlled energy sector.

Pledging to battle what he calls a planned privatization of Mexico's vast oil reserves, Lopez Obrador swears he will work to undermine any contracts agreed with the government.

"We're not going to stop until we manage to block these reforms," he told Reuters in an interview on Friday in a lush, lakeside garden in Catemaco in the Gulf state of Veracruz.

Pena Nieto has pinned his hopes of ramping up lackluster growth in Latin America's second largest economy on attracting more investment into the oil industry, and improving Mexico's meager tax revenues.

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