Angry Mexican Congressman Strips Down to His Underwear to Protest Energy Bill Emily Thomas - The Huffington Post
go to original December 13, 2013

Mexican Congressman Strips His Clothes in Angry Protest (PRD/Natasha O'Donnell)

Demonstrating how a new energy bill would potentially strip Mexico’s land of its oil and be a “plunder to the nation,” Congressman Antonio Garcia Conejo of the Democratic Revolution Party stripped down to his underwear during a speech in front of Mexico’s congress on Wednesday, the BBC reported.

"This is how you're stripping the nation. Where is the benefit?” he told the assembly.

The historic new energy bill will allow foreign private energy companies to drill for oil and gas in the country for the first time since the country nationalized oil in 1938. Since then, state-run oil company Pemex has had a monopoly on production in the country, according to CBS News.

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