Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away

Re:Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Bre... by SamPutnam on Monday January 08, 2018 @11:27AM (#16097792)

Government statistics show avocado exports now bring more money into the country than petroleum.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/06/mexico-...

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Re:Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Bre... by dekhn on Monday January 08, 2018 @11:30AM (#16097810)

mexico nationalized its oil industry and mainly uses it for internal supply (their choice), so I don't think this is a really useful comparison.

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Re:Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Bre... by mullen on Monday January 08, 2018 @12:34PM (#16098312)

Mexico just mismanages it. They use it for Internal Supply because they have screwed up PEMEX so much they can't product enough oil for export.

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Re:Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Bre... by kilroy123 on Monday January 08, 2018 @10:46PM (#16103440)

Yes it's pretty crazy. They ship it to the US to be refined. Then they buy it back. Sounds like a huge bloated organization with little regards to efficiency.

Source: dated a woman who worked there.

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Re:Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Bre... by Toast_25 on Monday January 08, 2018 @02:24PM (#16099369)

It's recently been privatized.

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Re:Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Bre... by onekorg on Monday January 08, 2018 @11:52PM (#16103710)

Yeah, last time I visited my hometown there were British Petroleum and Arco gas stations. They were offering slightly better prices than Pemex.

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Re:Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Bre... by Toast_25 on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @11:14AM (#16107186)

IME they've also been offering better quality, at least shell. Hopefully they'll also end the widespread practice of shorting customers.

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