Earlier, Lopez Obrador said his government would address future energy disputes with companies "case by case" as he took questions on the meetings with Granholm. Lopez Obrador last year launched his constitutional reform https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-president-says-electricity-reform-has-been-sent-congress-2021-10-01 to boost state control of the electricity market, arguing it was a matter of national security https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-power-bill-us-sights-top-energy-official-meets-lopez-obrador-2022-01-20, and that past governments had skewed the market in favor of private capital.
The country's influential vice president this week lashed out at what she described as debt payments to the IMF last year that she said had cost more than spending on COVID-19. The current IMF loan deal was struck in 2018 during the previous administration of conservative President Mauricio Macri.
The Mexican president said he would also thank Granholm for the United States approving the takeover of Royal Dutch Shell's Texas-based Deer Park refinery by Mexican state oil company (Petroleos Mexicanos) Pemex.