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Mexico: more Pemex contract scandals exposed
As the Mexican government pushes to get more private contractors for its oil company, Reuters reveals that 8% of the current contracts have serious problems.
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Mexico: missing students reported dead
Foreign investors remain "very excited with what's happening in Mexico" despite two notorious massacres so far this year. Mexicans see it differently: they continue to protest.
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Mexico: Supreme Court rejects energy referendum
The plans for opening Mexico's oil industry to private investment are popular in the US media, but are they popular with Mexicans? The courts have nixed a vote on the subject.
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Mexico: privatization scandals multiply
The Guerrero crisis is diverting international attention from plans for "economic reform," but is Mexico's business class really less corrupt than its politicians?
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Mexico: campesinos block Tabasco oil wells
Local campesinos are blockading hundreds of oil and gas wells in Mexico's Tabasco state to demand indemnification for lands impacted by a massive spill and explosion.
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Mexico: HP fined in latest Pemex scandal
Hewlett-Packard is being fined for bribing oil company officials in Mexico; meanwhile, the US is investigating possible corruption in Citigroup's Mexican operations.
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Mexico: bidding set to start on energy sector
As expected, Mexico's "energy reform" will provide a big opening for multinationals, along with more fracking, more deep-sea drilling, and more carbon dioxide.
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Mexico: Citigroup, Pemex mired in fraud scandal
Plans for privatizing the Pemex oil company barreled ahead as Mexicans learned that a private Pemex contractor had taken a privatized bank for a $400 million ride.
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Mexico City barrio resists spread of car culture
Residents of Mexico City's San Pedro Márti barrio pledge to continue resisting construction of a gas station despite the eviction of their protest encampment.
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Mexico: fracking wins in disputed ‘energy reform’
US companies are looking forward to the opportunities for deep-sea drilling and hydrofracking that Mexico's new energy policy has opened up.
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Mexico: fight over ‘energy reform’ heats up
Mexico’s right and center have agreed on a plan they say won’t privatize the state energy sector. Critics say it will and are protesting.
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Mexico: protesters pledge to resist energy ‘reform’
In a 40,000-strong Mexico City demonstration, union members and opposition activists pledged civil disobedience to halt President Enrique Peña Nieto’s energy sector reform.