Mexico energy overhaul will bring benefits, challenges

September 29, 2014

At a meeting just miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, Texas legislators heard a range of benefits their state can look forward to as Mexico remakes its energy sector – and also a stiff warning that capturing the windfall won’t be easy.

Over the past year, the Mexican government has approved a historical overhaul opening its energy industry to private investment after decades as a state-owned monopoly.

Houston Chronicle, Sept. 28, 2014

Featuring: Jorge Piñon, director of the Latin America and Caribbean Energy Program at the University of Texas at Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences