is mexico a good source for oil?
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Yes, but...\n\nThe biggest producer of oil in Latinamerica is of course, Venezuela. Venezuelan oil is of a better quality than Mexican oil. Some months ago they discovered a large deposit in the Gulf of Mexico. \n\nHowever, the problem is that the infrastructure of the government oil company, PEMEX, is outdated and the productivity of the employees in the fields, very low, compared to other countries.
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I was looking I found this was interesting:\n\nRevenue generated from oil, gas and mineral development, agricultural leasing and commercial activity on trust lands play an important role in funding public education in New Mexico.( http://www.nmstatelands.org/ )\n\n\nIf I get a chance I will look for more.
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all of mexico's oil is controlled by the monopoly known as Pemex. fox has little to do with it.
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Why Mexico's Small Corn Farmers Go Hungry\nMEXICO CITY Macario Hernández's grandfather grew corn in the hills of Puebla, Mexico. His father does the same. Mr. Hernández grows corn, too, but not for much longer. Around his village of Guadalupe Victoria, people farm the way they have for centuries, on tiny plots of land watered only by rain, their plows pulled by burros. Mr. Hernández, a thoughtful man of 30, is battling to bring his family and neighbors out of the Middle Ages. But these days modernity is less his goal than his enemy. \nThis is because he, like other small farmers in Mexico, competes with American products raised on megafarms that use satellite imagery to mete out fertilizer. These products are so heavily subsidized by the government that many are exported for less than it costs to grow them. According to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis, American corn sells in Mexico for 25 percent less than its cost. The prices Mr. Hernández and others receive are so low that they lose money with each acre they plant. \nhttp://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/ftaa/601.html\n\n\n \nExperts cite several key factors to explain Mexico's enduring poverty. \nFirst, two major economic crises since the 1980s have hampered overall growth, halted the creation of new jobs and pushed large numbers of the lower middle class into poverty. \n Mexico's weak public education system condemns workers to low salaries in a global economy where skills count. Decades of systemic government corruption have robbed the poorest of everything from high school scholarships to subsidized milk. The broken banking system hands out little credit -- people without the cash to buy a house or start a small business must often do without. \nMexico's inability to enforce the rule of law also discourages the investment needed to create jobs. \nJorge Castañeda, Fox's foreign minister until January, said investors were repelled by images of angry farmers riding their horses into the halls of Congress and anarchists successfully killing a $2 billion airport project with machetes and firebombs. They see kidnappings, impunity, corruption and legal structures so anemic that little crime is ever punished. \n"It is a state of disorder," Castañeda said. "This cannot go on." \nBut what has become painfully clear in Mexico is that free trade -- most famously NAFTA -- has failed to lift the country out of poverty. \nStarting with Miguel de la Madrid, president from 1982 to 1988, a succession of Ivy League-educated presidents bet on a formula intended to create prosperity for all. They advocated opening Mexico's markets, making government smaller, and decreasing its involvement in agriculture and industry. \n"There was heavy reliance on a rising tide carrying all boats," said Guerra, who served as spokesman for two presidents in the 1990s. "Well, free-market policies have done nothing to alleviate poverty." \nInstead, such policies have helped the upper classes and widened the divide between rich and poor. Studies show that the richest 10 percent now control about half of the country's financial and real estate assets. Most of those who are extremely poor live in rural areas. Government figures show that more than 40 percent of Mexicans in rural areas earn less than $1.40 a day, unable even to feed themselves decently. As a result, people are bailing out of the countryside as if it were a ship on fire. \n  Mexico's rural population is less than half the size it was in the 1950s. Government surveys show that between 400 and 600 people a day are packing up fleeing to cities or to the United States. \nAlberto Gomez, an influential farmers' leader who recently organized a march on the capital by tens of thousands of farmers, said the situation was desperate. "We don't want to come to the city and we don't want to emigrate to the United States. But people h
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You are correct.  It is a sense of sovereignty that is very engraved in the Mexican culture.  It is a way of being patriot (or so the Mexican stablishment wants you to believe).\nAs a result, PEMEX is the most inneficient Oil Company in the world, operating with a deficit every year while Mexican drivers pay dearly at the pump.\nAnother reason is that private enterprise does not do a lot better in serving the interest of the public as they are monopolies such as Telmex and Televisa.
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Click here: http://search.yahoo.com/search?search=major+land+formation+mexico&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ans&ico-yahoo-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAu80EMS8tuECK9pAjCjxOKQazKIX%2FSIG%3D111gjvvgj%2F*-http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch&ico-wikipedia-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAjVtDXsFYL8E9gx3L6mQpvYazKIX%2FSIG%3D11ia1qo58%2F**http%253a%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%253aSearch&p=major+land+formation+mexico  and look at all the links you can.  Good Luck!
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Yes, good wasn't it? Mexico looking good so far. It's a tight game though. (This is all being dictated to me by my son).
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Only if you are the country that is sanctioned. over all the world economy is able to absorb enough of the lost produces.  well except when it comes to Oil.
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Ally? We don't need Mexico. Mexico needs us.
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The problem with Mexico is how much they waste their resources. The contractors that pave the roads will use the cheapest materials and inexperienced labor but charge the government extremely high prices. The government officials accept this because they get a big bribe from contractors. The corruption is what is keeping the people poor in Mexico, there are warehouses full of food spoiling at this very minute, bought by the party candidates to buy votes, but since a new law of the  Federal Electorate Institute forbides to use food for votes, its all wasting away. I read Spanish Internet newspapers to get info, so that is where my sources come from.  Just to open a private business in Mexico, involves bribes so unbelievable that only the the wealthy can afford. The people are fleeing from poverty, its hard to fight against a government so corrupt within.  Recently, Flower vendors that stood up against the government were arrested, severely beaten and killed. Mexico is rich for the rich, and only poverty awaits for the poor and underprivileged. Fox's wife, instead of purchasing towels for 400 dlls each for her personal use, costing the the taxpayer, should invest in buying wheelchairs for her people. All her and Fox's clothing is payed by the taxpayer purchased in NY or France. And the woman never wears a dress twice. She put her hand me downs on auction, and not even the elite women bought them, appalled by the asking price. All this is what makes Mexico a Third World country despite it's wealth.
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Absolutely not.  The government in Mexico has all they can handle and they haven't done that well .
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Actually, Mexico has a decent side.  Traditionally, they play very well at home and of course they will not have that advantage ...\nReally, they probably only finished behind the US in the CONCACAF because they sloppily threw together their qualifying squads, knowing that they are pretty much a lock (for qualification).\nPortugal is really the only real powerhouse in their group.  I think beating Iran and Angola is certainly possible, so they should advance past the first round, despite what that dude wrote about a quick trip home ...\n\nUM ... YOU "DOT" IT?
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The United Mexican States or Mexico (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or México; regarding the use of the variant spelling Méjico, see section The name below) is a country located in North America, bordered by the United States to the north, and Belize and Guatemala to the southeast. It is the northernmost and westernmost country in Latin America, and also the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world. Mexico is considered the most advanced country in Latin America.[citation needed]\n\nThe country is often referred to by Mexicans as the Mexican Republic (Spanish: Republica Mexicana) although this is not the officially recognised title. The term State of Mexico (Spanish: Estado de Mexico) does not refer to the country, but only to one state within Mexico, located near the centre of the country adjacent to the Federal District.\n\nOn September 16, 1810, independence from Spain was declared by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest in the small town of Dolores, causing a long war that eventually led to the official recognition of independence from Spain in 1821 and the creation of the First Mexican Empire. Actually, Hidalgo declared the independence from France, as José Bonaparte (Napoleon's brother), also known in Mexico as Pepe Botella (Spanish: Bottle Joe, as he had a fame of a heavy drinker), was ruling Spain at that time. The initial intention of the movement, then, was to obtain independence from France while still remaining part of Spain. As the war escalated, however, the objective changed to independence from Spain.\n\nAfter independence, Spanish possessions in Central America which also proclaimed independence were all incorporated into Mexico from 1822 to 1823, with the exception of Chiapas.\n\nSoon after achieving its independence from Spain, the Mexican government, in an effort to populate its sparsely-settled hinterlands, awarded land grants in a remote area of the northernmost state of Coahuila y Tejas to hundreds of immigrant families from the United States, on the condition that the settlers convert to Catholicism and assume Mexican citizenship. It also forbade the importation of slaves, a condition that, like the others, was largely ignored.\n\nIn the 1860s, the country again suffered a military occupation, this time by France, seeking to establish the Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria as Emperor of Mexico, with support from the Roman Catholic clergy and conservative elemens of the upper class as well as some indigenous communities. The Second Mexican Empire was then overthrown by President Benito Juárez, with diplomatic and logistical support from the United States and the military expertise of General Porfirio Díaz. General Ignacio Zaragoza defeated the French Army (arguably the most powerful in the world at the time) at the city of Puebla on May 5, 1862, celebrated as Cinco de Mayo ever since. However, after his death, the city was lost in early 1863, following a renewed French attack which penetrated as far as Mexico City, forcing Juárez to organize an itinerant government.\n\n \nBenito Juarez, important figure of Mexican historyNapoleon III of France, Emperor of France, returned Maximillian as Emperor of Mexico from 1864 to 1867. In mid-1867, following repeated losses in battle to the Republican Army, Maximilian was captured and executed by Juárez's soldiers, along with his last loyal generals,Mejia and Miramon in Querétaro. From then on, Juárez remained in office until his death from heart failure in 1872.\n\nAfter Juárez's death, Mexico experienced economic growth under the liberal and pro-European rule of Porfirio Díaz. Foreign investment allowed the development of the oil industry and the construction of a railroad system across the country. This period of relative peace and prosperity is known as the "Porfiriato". His mandate, however, was mostly undemocratic and benefited the middle and upper classes, while the Amerindian indigenous pop
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You are right, Mexico should be a powerful nation. It seems they don't have the will power to force change in the right places. When a country builds it's economy from the currency of another nation there economic base becomes very unstable. Every U.S. Dollar that goes into Mexico serves only to devalue the peso. It has become a catch 22 for them. They need a person who is strong enough to break the strangle hold the drug families have on that nation.
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I don't think oil production rate is high there, Oil is flamable itself and need lots of pipelines which can't be guarded all the time so its an easy target.\nNo doubt that if there is any production it goes to Texas and it will keep going for many years specially after US leaves Iraq.
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Sure, Sam Houston beat the Mexican Army back in 1836, then the US military had beaten them again 1848. There is plenty of oil there to help out with growth not to mention the labor pool that has improved their skill in the past 30 years.  Mexico being added to the US would do wonders for the economy, then 70% of the poorest of the population would increase their standard of living into the modern world. But we would have to sink in tons of money in Federal programs to break up all the corruption, that in itself makes it not worth it.
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If you are planning to stay on the North of Mexico, you should try visiting Chihuahua, it's a nice state. Sinaloa, Culiacan and Monterrey are nice places too:)