Mexican Officials Quitting Top Jobs With AMLO Set to Take Office
- Resignations from central bank, oil commission stir concerns
- Openings give president-elect influence in autonomous bodies
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
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Key Mexico officials left the board of the nation’s central bank and the hydrocarbon regulator Wednesday amid growing concern that President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will meddle in bodies formerly insulated from politics -- and cut the salaries of top bureaucrats.
The announcements arrived in swift succession: Juan Carlos Zepeda, who oversaw the country’s oil fields, quit after reports of pressure from incoming Energy Minister Rocio Nahle to leave. Minutes later came news that deputy Governor Roberto del Cueto, one of Banco de Mexico’s five board members who decide interest rates, will depart at the end of this month. The 68-year-old cited his health.