{"id":3588,"date":"2014-12-27T08:39:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T13:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2014-12-27T08:39:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T13:39:25","slug":"crude-harvest-selling-mexicos-oil-special-series-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3588","title":{"rendered":"Crude harvest: selling Mexico’s oil – Special series – Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crude harvest: selling Mexico’s oil – Special series – Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Against the backdrop of Mexico’s ever-widening gap between rich and poor, growing violence, and stalled economy,\u00a0President Enrique Pena Nieto\u00a0has passed a series of economic reforms.<\/p>\n

Under these reforms, Mexico’s oil, which was expropriated from foreign interests 75 years ago, is now for sale to private, international companies.<\/p>\n

The reforms are\u00a0the most divisive the country has seen in a century.\u00a0Thousands are protesting against them, saying\u00a0the new regulations could bring the nation to a tipping point as organised crime and violence\u00a0would\u00a0spiral out of control.<\/p>\n

When it comes to big business and drilling for oil,\u00a0Mexico’s farmers are the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n

Twenty years ago,\u00a0the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which\u00a0opened Mexico up to trade\u00a0with the US and Canada, led to the collapse of agriculture, and paved the way to the privatization of oil.<\/p>\n

The operations of\u00a0Mexico’s state-owned oil company, Pemex,\u00a0have never been entirely transparent, and communities have been crippled by oil disasters. For instance, in October 2013, the state of Tabasco experienced its worst oil disaster when a drill site exploded and burned for 55 days, contaminating the surrounding land and water. Villagers closest to the site say they are suffering from health problems and have lost their livestock. They say Pemex has never accepted responsibility for the accident, nor has it offered any compensation.<\/p>\n

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Crude harvest: selling Mexico’s oil – Special series – Al Jazeera English. Against the backdrop of Mexico’s ever-widening gap between rich and poor, growing violence, and stalled economy,\u00a0President Enrique Pena Nieto\u00a0has passed a series of economic reforms. Under these reforms, Mexico’s oil, which was expropriated from foreign interests 75 years ago, is now for sale […]<\/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":[2173,517,588,1278,2174],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","tag-enrique-pena-nieto","tag-mexico","tag-oil","tag-oil-industry","tag-pemex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","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=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3589,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/3589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}