Mexico's Oil Industry 2019-2025: National Sovereignty and Energy Self- Sufficiency Without Development?

Roberto Gutierrez

doi:https://doi.org/10.63942/brjssh.v5.i9.p61.66243

Mexico's Oil Industry 2019-2025: National Sovereignty and Energy Self- Sufficiency Without Development?

Roberto Gutierrez

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This paper aims to put into perspective the insufficiency of the rescue strategy for Mexico's oil industry during the 2019-2025 period, which covers the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and impacts the first months of the subsequent administration. The paper's hypothesis is that the energy policy actions applied to the oil industry responded to a confused understanding of national sovereignty and energy self- sufficiency in an environment where it is difficult to determine whether there was even a legitimate concern about the country's future development and the role that oil could play in it, given the importance it had in the industrialization process (import substitution industrialization and manufacturing exports-led growth). To clarify this, the text evaluates, through the method of comparative statistical analysis, the degree of compliance of the seven main hydrocarbon-related tasks self-imposed by the AMLO administration. Based on official figures, it shows that, as of April 2025, none of the tasks had been completed, except for that referred to the reversion of the energy reform and those determined by inertial factors or financial and human resources to which the government had broad access. In this environment, after a six-and-a-half-year wait and a great deal of committed resources, the situation of the oil industry, far from improving, worsened.

development energy reform energy self-sufficiency national sovereignty Oil industry planning

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Gutierrez, R. (2025-11-05). Mexico's Oil Industry 2019-2025: National Sovereignty and Energy Self- Sufficiency Without Development?. Boston Research Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 5(9), 61-78.

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