Sheinbaum’s Turn in Favor of ‘Fracking’ Fuels Divisions Within the Ruling Bloc

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More than a dozen times, Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke against fracking—or hydraulic fracture—to extract hydrocarbons from the subsoil, mainly gas, a practice that Pemex had been exploring for years. As a presidential candidate and then as president, the founder of Morena showed very clear his rejection of the extraction method, considered very harmful by national and international environmental organizations. Towards the end of his term of …