In more news from Mexico, farming and Indigenous communities and environmental activists have vowed to fight plans by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to expand fracking in the country. Last week, Sheinbaum admitted to backtracking on her opposition to fracking, which marked a policy departure from her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who was a staunch opponent of oil and gas drilling. Mexico’s national oil company Pemex has reportedly engaged in fracking for years, including in the state of Veracruz, where local leaders say their lands have been devastated.

Rodolfo Bibiano: “Opening the door to fracking is a betrayal to the people, to the Indigenous peoples, to the original peoples of this country, because during the previous President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s six-year term, one of his campaign promises was precisely to ban fracking in our country. President Claudia Sheinbaum was supposed to continue that.”