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2. Like it or not, Pemex isn't productive...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Sep 9, 2013, 09:38 PM

Sep 2013

and the money it would take the government to fix it should go to the desperately poor in Mexico's cities and rural areas. The rich in Mexico are obscenely wealthy.
I'm not a Peña Nieto fan, but I´m a pragmatist when it comes to a country as profoundly unequal as Mexico.

ETA: When I lived there, I became a totally different person. I've never been faced with 8 year olds working in the street and the elderly left to die.

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Mexico president gambles with left-leaning reform [View all] Judi Lynn Sep 2013 OP

Such a demonstration of concern for his people!!! factsarenotfair Sep 2013 #1

Like it or not, Pemex isn't productive... a la izquierda Sep 2013 #2

Had you been a Republican, you would not have been changed Judi Lynn Sep 2013 #3

You're so right. My entire family is conservative... a la izquierda Sep 2013 #4