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AMLO's Mexico mining law reform diluting

Efforts by Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to reform the mining law and cut the length of a mining concession is already being diluted as it faces stiff resistance in Congress.

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Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador

AMLO sought to reduce the concession term from 50 to 15 years, with a single extension, from 100 years to 30.

AMLO's aim to fast-track the legislation backfired spectacularly.

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