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PRI Chairman Appointed Energy Minister: the Antecedents

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Pedro Joaquin Coldwell, who had been chairman of the PRI, has been named the energy minister in the new government led by Enrique Peña Nieto. There is precedent for a former PRI chairman to be named as Mexico’s energy minister. On December 1, 1994, President Ernesto Zedillo named Ignacio Pichardo, the former head of the Continue Reading