Abstract

GARCIA RIVERA, Enoc Alejandro. The renewed constitutional regulation of national hydrocarbons. Cuest. Const. [online]. 2015, n.33, pp.54-79. ISSN 1405-9193.

The use and supply of energy from hydrocarbons are essential for productive and social activities of any nation since its scarcity becomes an obstacle to their development. In Mexico, the decline in domestic production of hydrocarbons together with increasing domestic consumption, form the context that impacts an adequate supply of this primary energy, which has played a number of impediments that are affecting the economic capacity of the population and therefore the social and economic development of the country. To reverse this energy deficiency and promote democratization, the federal government enacted December 20, 2013 the constitutional reform on which the sought renewal of the country's oil industry guide. is this constitutional reform, the object of study of this work, because through this constitutional figures for the exploitation of hydrocarbons were modified are examined, as well as the legal scope that was intended to grant them. To achieve this, the analytical development will be based on legal methodology, since it allows you to apply a logical process of analysis of legislation, jurisprudence and doctrine, through the acquisition, systematization and transmission of legal knowledge related to the subject matter of study.

Keywords : hydrocarbons; reform; Constitution; democratization.