The Mexican Petroleum Industry in the Twentieth Century

Examine the complex web of domestic politics and international diplomacy that led to the creation of Pemex and analyze the role of the oil workers and national elites in this process. Pemex was born during a difficult period of international oil boycott, worker-state conflict, and technological deficiencies. Yet the national company survived. By the 1950s, Pemex had assumed the tasks, via the provision of cheap fuels, of underwriting Mexico's rapid industrial expansion.