FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16
PROGRAM # 7955 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
For each job created in the process of extracting crude oil, 60 more are created when refining it, explained an expert on petroleum that was talking about the recent concessions that Enrique Peña Nieto´s government granted for the exploitation of crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The extractions will be in deep wáters, they will be operated by foreign companies and all the production will be for the US market. The specialist recalled that the Mexican Oil industry was efficient for many years, but the govermment began dismantling PEMEX stopping the production of machinery and ships, disassociating from research institutes and privatizing production areas. Martha Elena Ramírez, conducts this broadcast of the program Voz Pública, from Mexico City.
Guests: Ing. Francisco Garaicochea Petrirena, president of a group called Pemex Constitution del 17, member of the organization Métrica Ciudadana, Mexico City; (audio recordings) Pedro Roberto Gómez López, Mixteco Yosonovico Organization of Sonora; María Antonieta Barrón, economy expert from the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM).
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