Billions of {dollars} of international and home vitality investments in Mexico are at stake Tuesday, when the nation’s Supreme Court docket points its ruling on the constitutionality of a 2021 electrical energy regulation that stifles competitors. But the importance of the choice will go nicely past pesos and centavos.
Via its ruling, the excessive court docket will sign whether or not it’s nonetheless unbiased or if it has turn into a software of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. If it’s the latter, Mexico’s democracy might be swinging by a thread, if it survives in any respect.