At least 43 US legislators complain to Trump on Mexico energy policy

Standing in front of a reopened coal-fired power plant, Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador on Saturday defiantly rejected complaints by a group of 43 US lawmakers about government policy favouring state companies in the energy market.

Six US senators and 37 representatives wrote this week to President Donald Trump complaining about actions by the government of Mexico that threaten US energy companies’ investment and market access and undermine the spirit of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that went into effect this year.

Lpez Obrador rejected the complaints, saying his administration would continue to give preference to the government’s Petroleos Mexicanos oil company and the state-owned electrical utility, arguing the free trade agreement did not cover Mexico’s energy sector.