Manuel Bartlett
Mexico
Morena
member of the Senate of Mexico
government
Manuel Bartlett Díaz is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and later with the Labor Party (PT). He has served as director of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), as governor of Puebla, and as secretary of the interior.
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Sep 14, 2026
Lean Right
CFE director Manuel Bartlett is at the center of energy policy disputes and the push for state control over electricity.
PRI views Bartlett as a symbol of the old PRI's worst excesses, and his current role undermines private investment and efficiency.
Jun 8, 2026
Lean Right
Bartlett, former CFE director and Morena figure, was publicly confronted by a fellow passenger who called him corrupt while he flew first class to Spain with his wife.
For PRI, Bartlett symbolizes Morena's hypocritical austerity narrative: a top official of a self-described anti-corruption government traveling in luxury while ordinary Mexicans absorb economic pain.