Mining Law: Morena proposed calling a company that exploits this mineral “AMLITIO”

After the Senate of the Republic approved the reform to the Mining Law and it was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) proposed two possible names for the company that controls lithium in Mexico.

Through her Twitter account, Morena questioned: “Now that lithium is owned by the nation and its exploitation, exploration and exploitation will be in charge of the State, what name would you like the agency in charge of its administration to bear? #ElLitioEsNuestro”

Subsequently, the party that took Andrés Manuel López Obrador to the National Palace conducted a poll in which it nominated “AMLITIO” and “Litiomex” as options.

Both options are about word games: the first one unites the acronyms of the name of the president and that of the minera l, while the second is only added the abbreviation of Mexico, very similar to that of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex).

It was on April 20 that the proposed amendments that were approved in Congress were published in the DOF. The opinion dictates the changes to articles one, of the 9 the first paragraph; 10 also in the first paragraph and an article 5 bis and a third paragraph were added to article 10 of the Act.

With this, lithium was declared as a metal of public use, so that concessions, licenses, contracts, permits or authorizations for its exploitation will not be granted if it is not of a national nature, according to Article 5 Bis.

At the same time, it was determined that lithium economic value chains will be administered and controlled by the State through the public agency referred to in article 10 of the law and that the Mexican Geological Survey will “assist the decentralized public agency responsible for the exploration, exploitation, benefit and utilization of lithium in the location and recognition of geological areas where there are likely reserves of lithium”.

“In the exploration, exploitation, benefit and utilization of lithium and its value chains, it will be the duty of the Mexican State to protect and guarantee the health of Mexicans, the environment and the rights of indigenous peoples, indigenous and Afro-Mexican communities,” says the Diario de la Federación.

After the triumph of López Obrador, state governors who are part of their nation project self-described as the Fourth Transformation (Q4) celebrated the approval of the reform to the Mining Law

Among them were the governor of Baja California, Marina del Pilar Avila Olmeda; that of Chiapas, Rutilio Cruz Escandón Cadenas; of Guerrero, Evelyn Salgado Pineda; of Nayarit, Miguel Ángel Navarro Quintero; Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya; of Tlaxcala, Lorena Cuellar Cisneros, and the Chief Government of the Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

As well as from Baja California Sur, Victor Manuel Castro Cosío; Michoacán, Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla; Puebla, Miguel Barbosa; Sonora, Alfonso Durazo Montaño; Veracruz, Cuitlahuac Jimenez; Campeche, Layda Sansores San Roman; Colima, Indira Vizcaino Silva; Morelos, Cuauhtémoc Blanco Bravo; San Louis Potosi, Ricardo Gallardo Cardona; Tabasco, Carlos Manuel Merino Campos, and Zacatecas, David Monreal Avila.

In a document signed by the state leaders, they assured that they will continue to work for “the strengthening of the national energy sector and the non-negotiable defense of Mexico.”

“We reiterate our commitment to the people of Mexico to continue working every day for the protection of natural resources and the environment, the strengthening of the national energy sector and the non-negotiable and inalienable defense of Mexico as a free and sovereign nation,” the text published on social networks reads.

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