Fuel Price Cap / Reforms on Disappeared People Search Efforts

Cap on Fuel Prices Assessment. According to Iván Escalante, Director, PROFECO, as of Mar. 19, 2025, 74.4% of gasoline service stations have complied with the agreement to sell a liter of gasoline with octane lower than 91, for a maximum of MX$24 (US$1.19). 

Escalante reported 100% compliance among Hidrosina franchises. G500 and Rendichicas franchises showed a 96.6% compliance rate. PEMEX franchises reported 86.7% compliance, Valero 83.6%, and smaller, primarily local, gasoline retailers reported 85.9% compliance.

The ones that did not fully comply with the agreement were CORPOGAS, which reported 71.7%  compliance, 7-Eleven’s PETRO-7, with 37.7% compliance, and OXXOGAS, with 31%. 

Reforms for Disappeared People Search Efforts. Ernestina Godoy, Legal Counsel, Presidential Office, presented reforms to the General Law on Population and the General Law on Forced Disappearance of Persons, Disappearance Committed by Individuals, and the National System for the Search of Missing Persons to improve search efforts. The changes seek to create a system for real-time information exchange, involving civil society, alerting the country rapidly about disappearances, strengthening state prosecutor's offices, expediting the search, using technology, and guaranteeing the right to identity through the Unique Population Registry Code (CURP). 

The main reforms include the creation of a Single Identity Platform, the use of CURP with biometric data, sanctions to officials for omissions, a National Database of Investigation Files, the obligation to update the National Forensic Data Bank, the strengthening of state prosecutor's offices, the incorporation of private entities in the search, the increase of penalties for forced disappearance, the strengthening of the National Search Commission, and the creation of a National System for alert, search, and location of persons.