File - in this 16th October 2013 file photo, Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron makes for a photo during a press conference, promoting his film "Gravedad" or gravity, in Mexico City. Cuaron published a full-page ad in Mexican newspapers questioning President Enrique Pena Nieto? s energy reform. Monday, April 28, 2014 publishes his open letter to the President. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, file). ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico City (AP) - published a full-page ad Monday in Mexican newspapers President Enrique Peña Nieto energy reform in question Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuaron.
The Director of the space-blockbuster film "Gravity" wrote an open letter to Pena Nieto, where he thanked his congratulations for the best director win at the this year's Oscar Pena Nieto.
But, Cuaron made it clear in the letter that the he did not agree with what the constitutional reform was passed in the last year. The reform allows for oil private companies to drill and maintain concessions for the first time since the oil industry was nationalized in 1938. Enable the legislation still needs to be passed.
Cuaron asked 10 questions to the President, including how Mexico would protect its environment to fight endemic corruption and reign in the power of the private oil companies.
"Multinational oil companies in the world have as much power as many Governments," wrote Cuaron. Be "what measures are taken to prevent that our democracy taken over illegal financing and other methods of pressure by powerful interests?"
"In a country with such a weak or non-existent legal system, how to avoid corruption?" he wrote.
Pena Nieto's Office had no immediate response to the letter.
The energy reform has drawn concerns already, because it is to the development in Mexico fracking, associated pumps to break down chemicals and water underground to open slate rock formations.
Other people fear a return to the days when foreign oil companies made fortune in Mexico, while the country to leave, with little use.
But the possession of the State in the past seven and a half decades neither guarantees prosperity for Mexico, even low gas and oil prices provided. No benefits that have left the average citizen through down have might reduce corruption within the State oil company and depending on the Government of oil revenue, government spending to finance a bloated Union.
Pena Nieto promised that the reforms would offer cheaper electric rates, partly because Mexico imported now significant amounts of natural gas.
But Cuarons was a first question, which asked many Mexicans. "If falling prices for gas, gasoline, fuel oil and electricity?"
While Mexican entertainment were once uncommon, numbers take increasingly political settings, or supported by political, social, and environmental causes.
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