California-based Sempra Energy continues to bet on Mexico even given regulatory changes that could impact the private sector’s operations in the country.

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“Our goal is to help Mexico be successful,” CEO Jeffrey Martin said in a fourth quarter earnings call. “They need more foreign direct investment. They have a deficit in their infrastructure.” 

The administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador “fortunately has been very committed to fiscal discipline. So I think our job is to make sure that we’re working in partnership with the government to advance the government’s goals.”

Through its Mexico subsidiary Infraestructura Energética Nova (IEnova), Sempra had $10.5 billion in assets and more than 1,400 employees in Mexico as of 2020.

Martin said the