“I think people are in for a very big surprise if they allow the Mexican government to monopolize the electricity sector; it’s simply not going to do Mexicans any favors in terms of efficiency, competition, low prices, or capital investment,” Tony Payan, Director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, told NGI’s Mexico GPI. 

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“This administration is backpedaling on efforts to phase out subsidies or increase market investment and market competition in the sector, and I think consumers will pay the price for that,” he added

Payan is the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public...