Editor's Note
This editor’s note highlights the key facts and market implications behind “Business Network of AMLO’s Brother-in-Law Create”, with emphasis on sourcing, product fit, fabrication, logistics, or buyer impact.
According to El Universal, Rodrigo Gutiérrez Mueller founded six companies in various sectors without any business records prior to the current administration. Rodrigo Gutiérrez Mueller, brother-in-law of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, consolidated a structure of six companies between 2018 and 2024. The sectors of these business units range from hydrocarbons and agribusiness to foreign currency movement and quartz extraction. According to an investigation by El Universal, based on notarial deeds from the Public Registry of Commerce of Guanajuato, Jalisco, and Mexico City, there are no business antecedents for Gutiérrez Mueller before the start of the current administration. The companies declare a minimum share capital of 11.4 million pesos, of which the former president's relative personally contributed 2.2 million.
Companies in the Energy and Agribusiness Sectors in the West
After the end of his brother-in-law's presidential term, Gutiérrez Mueller registered the company Keter Energy last September before notary Carlos Luviano Montelongo in Zapopan, Jalisco. This firm is dedicated to the purchase, sale, import, storage, and transportation of oil, gasoline, gas, diesel, and lubricants. Participants in this company include: Arnulfo Espinoza Tolentino, former mayor of Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz; Mario Martínez Sánchez; Mario Alberto Valderrabano Estévez; Oscar Javier Rodríguez Rodríguez; and Jorge Ferrer López. Previously, in July 2020, he constituted before notary Luis Valdés Anguiano the company Conectividad Logística Internacional Portuaria Colomo Campos, with an address in Manzanillo, Colima. The entity focuses on the export of agricultural and livestock goods, counting among its 14 partners Francisco Hueso Alcaraz, president of the State Agricultural Council of Colima, and leaders such as Rodrigo Vera Mendoza, Juan Carlos Hueso Palacio, and J. Jesús Nolasco Rodríguez.
Financial Structure and Partners Under Scrutiny
The network includes the firms Envíos del Bienestar and Pagos del Bienestar, founded in 2021. Simultaneously, his partners registered mirror companies in the United States such as Pagos del Bienestar LLC and Transfiriendo el Bienestar LLC, in addition to MexusPayment and Transferencias del Bienestar in Mexico, all with the objective of moving money between both countries.
In the constitution of MexusPayment, carried out before notary Antonio Rodríguez Laura Gutiérrez, the following participated: Efrén Calderón González, Antonio Ayala Ayub, Héctor de la Paz Cázares, Brian Ronald Cleland, and Carlos Alberto Grijalva. The latter two have been accused of alleged money laundering in United States territory. The investigation details that, although Gutiérrez Mueller started these ventures, his partners continued operating similar companies like Transferencias del Bienestar under the same financial services scheme.
Quartz Extraction
The former president's brother-in-law also ventured into the commercialization of construction materials through the companies Quartz Team International México and Quartz Stone. In these businesses, he partnered with Antonio Morales Díaz, current mayor of Tapalpa, Jalisco. In total, the business structure involves 46 people among partners and public notaries.
Reports from Treasury and the Financial Intelligence Unit
Despite the reported links, the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) and the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) issued a joint statement after the first revelations of this network.
In that statement, the authorities affirmed that, after an analysis conducted in a few days and over a weekend, no irregularities were found in Gutiérrez Mueller’s companies.
To date, there are no public records indicating that these companies have obtained direct contracts with the federal Government.
Source: Read the original article | Published: April 20, 2026