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Not only a source of national pride, Mexico’s national oil company was also supposed to lead the country to prosperity. The famous nationalization of the nation’s oil fields, which is celebrated with a national holiday every March, marked a definitive political separation from the US and signaled the emergence of […]

For most of its recent history, Mexican democracy has been a story of gridlock. With three dominant parties in a system in which a majority is needed to accomplish anything in the legislative realm, the opposition parties typically align to deny any significant changes to the status quo. And when […]