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Weekly Report - 25 September 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)
MEXICO: Fretting about Pemex reform
The general assumption among politicians and commentators that the
government would get some sort of useful reform to the state oil monopoly,
Petróleos Mexicanos, through congress before Christmas is crumbling. The
government's failure to get on top of the drug gangs, demonstrated by the
grenade attacks in Morelia, Michoacán on 15 September, have complicated its
relations with congress. All but one of the 33 senators from the Partido
Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), the biggest opposition party in the upper
house, refused to attend the testimonies given by the government's top two
security ministers on 22 September.
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