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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Crunchtime for Mexico’s Oil.

Counterpunch, July 15, 2008 - “The countdown to the denouement of the great debate over privatization of Mexico’s oil industry looms just weeks away and both sides in this bellwether battle against neo-liberalism are sharpening up their knives.  With formal debate in the Senate set to end July 22nd, President Felipe Calderon’s privatization imitative is on the legislative fast track for a quick vote - Energy Secretary Georgina Kessel urges legislators from Calderon’s rightist PAN party, which holds a slim majority in both houses, to call a special session the moment debate ends to vote up the proposed ‘energy reform’ package over the objections of the opposition.” Read more.

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