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Article: RESIGNATION OF ENERGY SECRETARY FELIPE CALDERON COMPLICATES PRESIDENT VICENTE FOX'S EFFORTS TO PUSH FOR ENERGY REFORMS.
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- SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico
- Article date:
- June 2, 2004
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President Vicente Fox suffered a major setback in his efforts to push through major energy reforms this year following the contentious resignation of Energy Secretary Felipe Calderon Hinojosa.
Calderon replaced Ernesto Martens in September 2003, after a brief term as director of the government lender Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios (BANOBRAS). Calderon left his post as floor leader for the center-right Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) in the Chamber of Deputies just a few months earlier to take the BANOBRAS post.
Fox tapped Calderon to head the Secretaria de Energia (SENER) with the specific goal of helping push his energy reforms through Congress (see ...