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Worth debunking that, as: a) Mexico nationalized gas on 1938. b) Fuel shortage and price hike actually started on 2016 when the previous right wing government
by licebmi__at__ 7y ago
Worth debunking that, as:
a) Mexico nationalized gas on 1938.
b) Fuel shortage and price hike actually started on 2016 when the previous right wing government deregulated the gas price, and allowed other companies to sell fuel in a free market scheme.
Panic sales as everyone was expecting a price hike were the cause of fuel shortages across 2016 and 2017.
While the current government has currently halted the privatization process for PEMEX, based on allegations of corruption and dirty business; the fuel shortage was (at least the official story) because of an operation to stop fuel theft, again with allegations of complicity of previous governments.
- gnusty_gnurc 7y agoIt's hard for me to see PEMEX as a noble venture when price controls on gas largely act as a subsidy for the richest in Mexican society. I would blame less on "right wing deregulation" and more on a system that is rotten to the core and failing at such a basic service like providing fuel.
- licebmi__at__ 7y ago>It's hard for me to see PEMEX as a noble venture when price controls on gas largely act as a subsidy for the richest in Mexican society. Kinda like every other subsidy in a capitalist society. >I would blame less on "right wing deregulation" And that's called being blind by ideology. Having a pro-market stance is respectable position. Being blind to our ideology shortcommings is less than ideal but normal. Trying to rewrite history to fit our own ideology either by mistake or willingly, is being a propagandist.