Posted on 03/27/2023 7:14:11 AM PDT by Wuli
He hasn’t been representing green energy investors.
During a visit to Mexico last week President Biden’s climate envoy, John Kerry, heaped praise on President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. “I see wisdom in his leadership that wants to undo some of the mistakes of the past and help to promote the interests of the people,” Mr. Kerry said of the 69-year-old career politician who sat nearby whispering to his team and grinning.
Mr. Kerry apparently saw no irony in linking arms for a photo-op, on the same trip, with Manuel Bartlett, one of the most notorious “dinosaurs” of Mexico’s one-party state during the 20th century. Mr. Bartlett is now the director of the state-owned Federal Electricity Commission, or CFE, which is at the center of a dispute with American renewable-energy investors.
The climate envoy’s job is to travel around the world spreading fear about global warming and pressuring countries to adopt the environmental lobby’s agenda. Mr. Kerry is good at the former. But while his seven trips to Mexico over 18 months seem to have made him Mr. López Obrador’s new BFF, they’ve done nothing to advance the cause of renewable energy in Mexico.
Mexico reformed its constitution in 2013 to allow for private investment—foreign and domestic—in energy. In November 2018, then-President Enrique Peña Nieto signed a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement, christened the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Whereas Nafta did not commit Mexico to open its energy sector, USMCA consolidated the opening Mexico had done unilaterally and prohibits discrimination of investors and service providers.
AMLO, as the Mexican president is known, took office in December 2018 with a goal of restoring the monopoly power of the CFE and the state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex. To get there, he’s been backtracking on Mexico’s USMCA obligations.
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And let’s not forget how he was awarded one of the cherish ed Purple Hearts. If I recall correctly he cut his finger on a patrol boat (anchored off a quiet piece of jungle). That was enough to get him a early out.
He’s making sure Mexico follows the “Declaration of North America: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/01/10/declaration-of-north-america-dna/
Probably similar treachery to when he met with the North Vietnamese in Paris in 1970.
I hate to even think about the pollution Mexican maquiladoras cause. Is Kerry even looking at those? You KNOW Mexico could care less about the crap that’s being dumped/discharged on the ground.
<joke A horse walks into a bar. Bartender sez “Hey Kerry, GTFO of here!” </joke
Then he threw it over the White House fence in protest.
Whatever he may be up to it is no good.
Es No Bueno!
Assisting with the US financed invasion of the 50 states!
That’s what John Kerry is doing in Mexico!
Solidifying his drug connections.
Picking up his cut..............
The cartels are working with the Chinese... Kerry’s an old commie. Maybe you’re right - he wants a cut of the action.
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