State Legislatures Approve Mexico Energy Reforms Ending Oil Monopoly Associated Press
go to original December 16, 2013

PRD party members from Veracruz, headed by their leader, Sergio Rodríguez, and accompanied by topless women who were painted from the waist up in body paint, protested Energy Reform at Plaza Lerdo de Xalapa. The banner says, "Go privatize the whore who bore them!" (redpolitica.mx)

MEXICO CITY - A majority of Mexico's state legislatures have now approved sweeping energy reform legislation that will allow private companies to work in oil and gas exploration and production.

In all, 17 of the country's 31 state legislatures have approved the reform of the state-controlled oil industry that Congress passed last week.

The states' approval was needed because the legislation changes the country's Constitution, which previously banned such private contracts.

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