MEXICO CITY (AP) — EDITOR’S NOTE:
Mexico took control of its most precious natural resource by seizing the oil sector from U.S. companies in a move that’s taught starting in first grade today and celebrated each year as a great patriotic victory.
The woman holding a double-digit lead in the June 2 election to replace President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is an environmental engineer who helped produce the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. She’s also been a faithful protege of López Obrador, who hails from the oil industry’s Gulf of Mexico heartland and led a 2008 fight against energy reform.
The AP is making available its story from March 18, 1938, reporting the expropriation of foreign oil companies.
___
President Lazaro Cardenas tonight announced expropriation by the government of foreign oil companies operating in Mexico.
Related articles:
Related suggestion:
Chinese premier holds talks with Dominican PMUniversity in Beijing Holds Activities for Students to Ring in Spring FestivalChina's National Winter Games Spurs Growth of IceYoung Workers Head to Classes After the Sun SetsLaba Festival Gathering for Migrant Children in Xi'anChina's Nutrition Supply Continues to Improve in 2022: ReportChina's Mohe Develops Various Winter Tourism ProgramsChina's HYX renews contract with IOC as formal uniform supplierRehabilitation Assistance Brightens Future of Disabled ChildrenGains Made in Reducing School Stress
2.8246s , 6496.796875 kb
Copyright © 2024 Powered by AP WAS THERE: Mexico's 1938 seizure of the oil sector from US companies ,Global Gleam news portal