Mexico leftists seize Congress to block oil reform

[AlphaCentauri]

Leftist legislators stormed the podium of Mexico's lower house of Congress Tuesday to try to halt the final vote on reforms to energy legislation.
Some two dozen deputies occupied the podium, waving Mexican flags, just before the start of debating and voting on the seven-bill energy reform package backed by conservative President Felipe Calderón.
The legislation was expected to pass comfortably as the government has secured the support of the largest opposition party as well as many leftist lawmakers. But analysts say the changes do not go far enough to turn around the struggling industry.
Mexico, the world's sixth-largest oil producer, has seen its oil production fall to a 13-year low as output from the aging giant Cantarell field has tumbled.

The oil industry, nationalized in 1938, is viewed by many Mexicans as a bulwark of national sovereignty. Opponents of the energy reforms argue they are in fact a back-door measure to privatize the industry.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20081028-0920-mexico-energy-.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. If they have some "leftists" in there going along with Calderón, they've got the same problem

we've got here: bogus leftists, passing themselves off as decent people just to get in the road, make trouble, screw everything up, advance the fascist agenda.

Hope they burn in hell before they can do any real damage.

Buena suerte to the real people of conscience involved in this struggle.

[AlphaCentauri]

2. in Mexico there are a lot wal-mart leftist

A priest, friend of mine toll me that corporations are doing what the old PRI regime did by giving out food rations for votes, corporations do it to gain sympathy from the poor and some none profits

[Judi Lynn]

3. Good grief. That really makes a person sick. I hope people take the food and vote against them.

This is really brazen on the part of major people abusers. Shame on them.

I heard Walmart intended to put a whopper store right next to the Pyramid of the Sun. I really hope they didn't allow them to do that, somehow.