{"id":11309,"date":"2015-08-21T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T12:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11309"},"modified":"2015-08-21T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T12:48:09","slug":"new-records-show-more-us-involvement-in-mexico-oil-gas-privatization-efforts-as-mexican-government-says-100-its-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11309","title":{"rendered":"New Records Show More US Involvement in Mexico Oil, Gas Privatization Efforts as Mexican Government Says “100%” Its Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Records Show More US Involvement in Mexico Oil, Gas Privatization Efforts as Mexican Government Says “100%” Its Idea<\/a><\/h3>\n

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New records obtained by DeSmog shed further light on the role the\u00a0U.S.<\/span>government has played to help implement the privatization of Mexico’s oil and gas industry, opening it up to international firms beyond state-owned companyPEMEX<\/span>\u00a0(Petroleos\u00a0Mexicanos).<\/a><\/p>\n

Obtained from both the City of San Antonio, Texas and University of Texas-San Antonio (UTSA<\/span>), the records center around the\u00a0U.S.\u2013Mexico Oil and Gas Business Export Conference<\/a>, held in May in San Antonio and hosted by both the\u00a0U.S.<\/span>Department of Trade and Department of Commerce, as well as\u00a0UTSA<\/span>.<\/p>\n

They reveal the\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0government acting as a mediator between Mexico’s government and\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0oil and gas companies seeking to cash in on a policy made possible by the\u00a0behind-the-scenes efforts of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0State Department<\/a>. State Department involvement was first revealed here on DeSmog, pointing to emails obtained via Freedom of Information Act and cables made available via\u00a0Wikileaks.<\/p>\n

The records also call into question the claim made by Mexico’s Energy Secretary, Pedro Joaqu\u00edn Coldwell, that the privatization policy was \u201c100 percent made in Mexico<\/a>.\u201d Coldwell said this in reaction to DeSmog’s investigation showing heavy State Department involvement in ushering in the\u00a0policy.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>It is absolutely false that Hillary Clinton or any other United States government entity had anything to do with the Mexican energy reform,\u201d Coldwell\u00a0stated.<\/p>\n

If the\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0government had nothing to with creating the policy architecture to begin with, and its own records tell the opposite story, then it sure is shocking how involved it is now in the attempt to help\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0companies build their profits from the new policy\u00a0regime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Indeed, event organizers boasted of the convening as a business opportunity for\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0companies.<\/p>\n

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New Records Show More US Involvement in Mexico Oil, Gas Privatization Efforts as Mexican Government Says “100%” Its Idea New records obtained by DeSmog shed further light on the role the\u00a0U.S.government has played to help implement the privatization of Mexico’s oil and gas industry, opening it up to international firms beyond state-owned companyPEMEX\u00a0(Petroleos\u00a0Mexicanos). Obtained from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[5317,5088,8342,1120,8339,1729,4539,8341,8340,843],"class_list":["post-11309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","tag-desmog-blog","tag-foia","tag-gas-privatization","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-mexican-government","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-privatization","tag-us-department-of-commerce","tag-us-department-of-trade","tag-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11310,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11309\/revisions\/11310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}