UT Energy Journalism Fellow Lorne Matalon published in Revista, the Harvard Review of Latin America

UT Energy Journalism Fellow Lorne Matalon has published an article in ReVista, the prestigious Harvard Review of Latin America, on an under-reported and controversial aspect of Mexico’s energy reform program, the subject of his yearlong fellowship at UT. As Matalon reports, residents in the Valle de Juárez, southeast of El Paso, have been victimized by violence for more than a decade from a shadowy mix of land speculators and organized crime figures who have forced people from their land in anticipation of energy production in the region. The story centers on construction of pipelines that will send U.S. natural gas to the Mexican interior. For more, read the entire article.