The administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador issued a broad decree Monday requiring all federal agencies to give automatic approval for any public works project the government deems to be “in the national interest” or to “involve national security.”
The decree published Monday sidesteps all environmental, accountability, and feasibility review processes, and gives regulatory agencies five days to grant a year-long ‘temporary’ approval for anything the government wants to build.
The agencies would then have a year to grant definitive approval, by which time the projects would presumably already have . . .
