Most respected contemporary Mexican president, known as the nationalization of the oil industry in Mexico's son said his father wallow in his grave.
In fact, the two sides heated debate is recommended to open Mexico's oil industry is a private company with former President Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico, roughly equivalent to Franklin · D · Roosevelt's image.
Current President Enrique Pena Nieto has launched television advertising, particularly prominent Cardenas expropriated foreign oil companies nationalized industry, he served from 1934 to 1940 photos blitz.
Like Roosevelt, who was called to help pull the U.S. out of the Depression with his "new deal" program of public works, to be remembered Cardenas handed over the land to poor farmers and stand up to foreign oil companies have spent the lion's share of the profits from the varnish.
Cardenas's son and other leftists said that the government is trying to privatize the state-owned oil companies, national oil companies. Pena Nieto denied, and pointed out that under the proposed reforms, private companies will only allow profit-sharing contracts rather than ownership of the country's oil.
But Cuauhtemoc, the son of Lazaro Cardenas, founder and main leftist parties said on Friday that the government is an insult to the memory of his father.
"" This is a false and offensive government uses the image of Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico to promote patriotism and betrayal between people's energy reform proposal, Cardenas wrote: "last Friday on the front page of the newspaper editorials The La Jornada.
Kwame 乌特莫克卡 Cardenas company Pemex has acknowledged the problem, but he said that privatization is not the answer. Pena Nieto's government says it has no controversial comments.
Lazaro Cardenas is imposed by the President of Mexico oil in the 20th century, the most popular decision, nationalization is still very popular. By the Economic Research and Teaching Center 2012 2,400 Mexicans surveyed said that 65 percent of respondents were opposed to any foreign investment in the oil industry. The poll by the Mexico City think-tank has a margin of error of 2 percentage points.
Therefore, Pena Nieto has literally recruited Lazaro Cardenas in an uphill battle to change this attitude. In a television ad, the narrator touted the virtues of reform - from production decline of Mexico deepwater reserves and exploration, Pemex companies can not - Lazaro Cardenas from the 1930s playing in the background with the image database.
Lazaro Cardenas is not exactly a photogenic icon. Like Roosevelt, who used a wheelchair, a physical defect Cardenas: almost complete lack of chin. However, his personal information, his prominent features are the government advertising and those from the left, opposed to reform.
Pena Nieto touted his call for reform historical accuracy: Cardenas also allows private companies working under contract after he nationalized the oil industry. The government has stressed that it is just trying to remove the ban private drilling and refining, in the early 1960s, is inserted in the Constitution.
The opposition has not subsided. Elena Poniatowska, arguably Mexico's most famous living writer, told local media, "I did not think he (Pena Nieto) card Cardenas have any reason to call it the effective support of the argument, but did not attempt to use his suggestion to legalize. "
As often happens, the reality seems to have taken a back seat perception and spin.
"I think this is a very skilful political manipulation Pena Nieto government takeover Cardenas myth, a myth, is said to belong to the left, said:" The political analyst Roger Bartra.
"We're talking about a myth, and all this discussion of modern state run oil company head, oil is the essence of this myth, what this means is part of Mexico," Bartra said.
But cracks myth has become obvious: In the past decade, oil production declined by 25 percent, Mexico imported more than it uses gasoline and natural gas, if no measures are taken, the country in the coming years may become a net energy importer.
"If you insist on keeping the left side of the debate in the realm of myth," Bartra said, "I think it is to lose."
 



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