The Federal Electric Commission (CFE) has come under scrutiny after massive blackouts on December 30, 2020, and related to the February 13–17, 2021 North American winter storm.
[81] The Senate approved a law regulating cultivation, distribution, production, sale, and use of marijuana on November 19, 2020,[82] but the Chamber of Deputies was unable to reach an agreement and the deadline was extended to February 2021.
[83] Javier Molina, analyst of the investment firm eToro, notes that legalization of recreational marijuana will increase tax collection, but Alfredo Neme, representative of the National Cannabis Council (CCN), warns that the bill was written will be a boon for large pharmaceutical companies and leaves out public-private associations.
[86] The July 2021 Mexican legislative election promises to be a battle between PAN, PRI, and PRD[87] on one hand vs. MORENA and PANAL[88] on the other.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has proposed referendums on his progress since 2018 and on criminal trials of his predecessors Enrique Peña Nieto, Felipe Calderón, Vicente Fox, Ernesto Zedillo, and Carlos Salinas de Gortari.