The Push to Privatize PEMEX.

In These Times, May 12, 2008 - “Halliburton is licking its chops at the prospect of Mexico’s state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos going private.  Petróleos Mexicanos, or PEMEX, withstood a tsunami of privatizations of formerly state-owned companies in the late 1980s and ’90s. But now, with pro-business President Felipe Calderón in office, the effort is being revisited — and the Mexican left is coming out en masse to defend the 70-year-old company, a long-time source of national pride and a symbol of Mexican sovereignty.” Read more.