Mexican government accelerates drive to privatize state oil industry - World Socialist Web Site
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Mexican government accelerates drive to privatize state oil industry
By Bill Van Auken
5 December 2013
Encircled by thousands of police and nine-foot-high metal security fences, Mexico’s congress is expected to soon enact constitutional amendments allowing the partial privatization of the state energy firm, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX).
Tuesday brought the legislature one step closer to the historic scrapping of what has long been seen as a key gain of the Mexican revolution—the nationalization of petroleum resources and expulsion of the foreign oil companies, which had rode roughshod over the country’s economic and political life.
