http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2013/1001/Congress-could-undercut-US-Mexico-joint-drilling-deal-in-Gulf
Summary
A heavy black cloud lingers as the U.S. Congress shy away political finances of the U.S.-Mexico maritime offshore oil drilling and gas field sites in the Mexican Gulf. A light of hope that was promised to Mexico in 2012 when both nations agreed to the expansion of U.S.technology and investment in hard-to-reach regions of Mexico. A promise that has yet to be fulfilled as Mexican President Pena Nieto attempts to lure U.S. Congress over the border, waving them down with a reform that would open up the country's state-owned oil company to foreign investments. So what is holding up Congress from crossing to the other side? The U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement, has the House and Senate divided over the regulations and financial exposure requirements, as to how much is too much in publicly disclosing their payments to foreign governments such as Mexico.
Analysis
The black smoke that is presently lingering in Congress and along the U.S.-Mexico Border, is merely the social-political reminisces of colonizing dust. A dust that by the U.S. states has been continually inhaled since the bloody conquest of the Southwest, permeating the beliefs, sentiments and ideology of Manifest Destiny into the core framework that continues to erect the tangible border and push globalization south. A dust-mirage that Mexico's politics refuse to remove from social welfare realities and the hierarchy structures of race, class and gender. A battered wound of raped resources that is still attempting to heal from the Spanish Conquest. Under the shadow of "Environment" and "1st-World Economics", Mexico slides open the back door for foreign investments. One example who be the 1994 NAFTA agreement, which opened its borders to the U.S. and push indigenous communities of their communal lands and pulled them north to the Maquiladoras along the Border.
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