Inauguration of Dos Bocas refinery will be in 2022: López Obrador.

Inauguration of Dos Bocas refinery will be in 2022: López Obrador.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured that June 1, 2022 the Dos Bocas refinery will be inaugurated, to celebrate that on that date the four years of the "democratic triumph in Mexico".

In carrying out a review of the progress of the new refinery, one of the flagship projects of his administration, the President stressed that Mexico must be self-sufficient in gas, diesel and fuel, because it is the new policy of its administration.

Accompanied by Governor Adán Augusto López, Secretary of Energy, Rocío Nahle and Director of Pemex, Octavio Romero, the President said:

Because we do not want to depend on abroad when it comes to something so strategic and fundamental to national security. We have to be self-sufficient in gasoline, in diesel, in food. This does not mean breaking relations with any country."

"We will always maintain a policy of cooperation with all the peoples and governments of the world, in particular we will always maintain a relationship of respect and cooperation with the people and the government of the United States, but as all democratic and sovereign countries do, we must strengthen our independence economic".

In heavy rain, President López Obrador thanked the workers of the companies that build Dos Bocas, pointing out that neither the pandemic nor the bad weather stops them.

He said that despite the obstacles, resistance and conservative attitude, one can go forward to consummate the work of transformation in the country.

"I am optimistic, convinced that we will succeed, convinced that we will achieve the transformation of the country and make history. We are on the crest of the wave of transformation," he said.