The latest Pemex capital injection underscores that Mexico’s President López Obrador is more likely to lean towards providing a sovereign debt guarantee (either implicit or explicit) to deal with the company’s financial problems. But with a less Pemex-friendly president likely to be in place next year, we think that a restructuring of the firm’s debt is, ultimately, on the cards.
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