Private power south of the border narrowly escaped in April a congressional audit committee invalidating as unconstitutional their generation and sale of power to the national electricity monopoly, the Comisión Federal de Electricidad ("CFE"). At the request of Mexican President Vicente Fox, the Mexican Supreme Court by a 6-to-5 vote ruled that the audit committee of the opposition-dominated Congress did not have authority to rule on the constitutionality of the power purchase contracts between CFE and private generators. Had the high court affirmed the audit committee and ruled against...