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The latest trinational news.Monday, July 28, 2008
Mexico’s capital, 9 states vote on nation’s oil industry.
LA Times, July 28, 2008 - “A bitter debate on how to rescue Mexico’s troubled state-owned oil company went directly to the people Sunday as residents of the capital and nine states voted in a nonbinding referendum on President Felipe Calderon’s plan to open some portions of the petroleum industry to outsiders. The vote, organized by the opposition Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD, has no official bearing on energy legislation making its way through Congress. But opponents of Calderon’s reforms hope a decisive ‘no’ vote will force legislators to back off. The balloting was the first of three so-called Citizen Consultation referendums over the next month that will eventually cover Mexico’s 31 states and federal district.” Read more.
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