Mexico Says No to Private Energy

Mexico, Dec 21 (Prensa Latina) The Mexican Union of Electricians (SME) demanded that President Felipe Calderon’s Government lay off a privatizing project of energy or they will bring the nation to a halt.

If we do not receive a viable response to the demand, the sectors opposed to privatization of petroleum and electricity will get together and protest campaigns and maybe go on strike, warned SME


In declarations to the press the foreign and Interior secretaries of the Union, Fernando Amezcua and Jose Humberto Montes de Oca, respectively, emphasized that foreign transnational are just waiting to get into Mexican Petroleum (PEMEX).

In view of this situation, we follow a policy of alliance with other organizations like the Mexican Trade Union Front, the National Talk, and the Democratic National Convention, clarified Amezcua and Montes de Oca.

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