El Petroleo es Nuestro: A History of Oil in Mexico

05 - Poor Planning

03.30.2018 - By Brandon SealePlay

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In this episode, we struggle to make sense of PEMEX's adolescent period. Great measures - such as the formation of the Instituto Mexicano de Petroleo - are taken which will yield fantastic results a decade later. But disturbing patterns begin to emerge as other Mexican institutions come to rely on PEMEX's spectacular wealth to advance their own agendas.

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