Morena leader: 'Fiscal corruption was born with PRI and PAN'

Ariadna Montiel, national leader of Morena, has accused the PRI and PAN parties of initiating fiscal "huachicol," a term referring to corruption related to energy resources. She stated that the 2013 energy reform was tainted by corruption and bribery, aimed at privatizing the energy industry.

Montiel recalled that former President Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) pushed for an energy privatization reform, which was opposed by a movement led by Andrés Manuel López Obrador. She noted that the reform approved under former President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) on December 12, 2013, allowed private entities to import hydrocarbons, undermining national energy sovereignty.

The Morena leader also referenced the Odebrecht scandal, where the Brazilian company allegedly paid millions in bribes to officials across Latin America for public works contracts. She pointed to a video where former Pemex director Emilio Lozoya reportedly implicated former presidential candidate Ricardo Anaya in corruption related to the energy reform.

Montiel further alleged that Peña Nieto granted 1,377 hydrocarbon import permits, including to Ingemar, a company owned by former Baja California governor Ernesto Ruffo Appel. She added that while López Obrador revoked irregular permits, a judicial decision allowed Ingemar to continue operating. The Attorney General's Office (FGR) reported in 2021 that Anaya allegedly received 6.8 million pesos in bribes from Lozoya to support the energy reform.