Jorge Ricardo / Reform Agency
Friday, May 12, 2023 | 20:28
Hidalgo.- In a meeting where the workers of the Tula refinery asked him to be re-elected, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reiterated that in 2024 Mexico will no longer buy gasoline abroad.
The federal president visited today in private the modernization works of the refinery in Hidalgo, where a coking plant is also being built.
“We are investing around 3 billion dollars, not credit, but public budget,” he said.
“This is going to mean that with the new works, the modernization of the six refineries that we found, the purchase of the Deer Park refinery in Texas, the new Dos Bocas refinery, another coking plant but in Salina Cruz, with all that , for next year we are no longer going to buy gasoline abroad, and all the gasoline is going to be produced in our country, we are going to achieve that purpose of being independent in our energy resources”.
In a video that he posted on his Twitter account, López Obrador gave a short message accompanied by the governor, Julio Menchaca; the Secretary of Energy, Rocío Nahle, and the director of Pemex, Octavio Romero.
Dozens of workers around them, in orange overalls and white cases, chanted: “Re-election, re-election!”, although he said no with a raised hand.
“What happens is that I escaped, because there are thousands waiting for me, because they must be working, working, and that is also the good thing that many jobs are generated, a lot of well-being in Mexico, Well, like 5 thousand workers are here and they are not work is going to be lacking and we are going to ask ICA to always pay the workers well,” he said.
At their meeting, he also promised workers better wages and working conditions.
“In the time we have left, work will not be lacking and we will always seek to increase wages and benefits for workers,” he said.
