Podcasts by El Petroleo es Nuestro: A History of Oil in Mexico
Mexico's experience with oil contrasts sharply to the development of the same resource from the same formations in the United States, and it illustrates the most salient cultural, political, and historical differences between the two countries. "El Petroleo es Nuestro" uses the history of oil in Mexico to tell the story of the development of modern Mexico and its national institutions. Remastered and re-released for 2018!
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11 - What's Wrong with Mexico from 2018-03-30T00:00
Nothing's "wrong" with Mexico of course...but what makes it so different and so maddening? Recommended reading: Luis Rubio's "The Problem of Power" (http://tinyurl.co...
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02 - Revolución from 2018-03-30T00:00
The oil companies withdraw from Mexican society as Revolution ravages the country. As Post-Revolutionary governments reassert control over the country, they go to battle with the oil companies over...
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03 - The Expropriation from 2018-03-30T00:00
On March 18, 1938, Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas expropriated the properties of the American, English, and Dutch oil companies operating in Mexico. Was this the ideological act of a political r...
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04 - The Golden Age of Pemex from 2018-03-30T00:00
Antonio J. Bermudez assumes the Directorship of PEMEX and makes it the animal we have come to know and love. PEMEX truly becomes an oil company, making critical downstream investments and finally s...
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05 - Poor Planning from 2018-03-30T00:00
In this episode, we struggle to make sense of PEMEX's adolescent period. Great measures - such as the formation of the Instituto Mexicano de Petroleo - are taken which will yield fantastic res...
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06 - Managing Abundance from 2018-03-30T00:00
We're back to gushers and glory here with the great oil finds of the 1970's: Reforma, Cantarell, and Ku-Maloob-Zaap. And we're talking about the closest thing PEMEX has to an America...
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07 - The Lost Decade from 2018-03-30T00:00
Mexico limps through the 1980's following a collapse in oil prices and an effective default on its national debt. When the Harvard-educated, neoliberal Carlos Salinas takes office in 1988, he ...
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09 - Slouching towards Reform from 2018-03-30T00:00
Cantarell peaks. Chicontepec comes up dry. And the Multiple Service Contracts fail to produce an increase in foreign investment or in the production of hydrocarbons. And then the PEMEX tower explod...
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10 - The Mexican Energy Reform from 2018-03-30T00:00
After regaining office in December 2012, the PRI party carries out the single biggest change to the Mexican Constitution in 70 years with the 2013 Mexican Energy Reform. In some ways, the 2013 Refo...
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10,000 Listeners and a New Podcast! from 2018-01-09T00:00
Thank you to everyone who supported El Petroleo es Nuestro, and please go check out my new podcast called a New History of Old San Antonio, which you can find at www.brandonseale.com
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10,000 Listeners and a New Podcast! from 2018-01-09T00:00
Thank you to everyone who supported El Petroleo es Nuestro, and please go check out my new podcast called a New History of Old San Antonio, which you can find at www.brandonseale.com
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10,000 Listeners and a New Podcast! from 2018-01-09T00:00
Thank you to everyone who supported El Petroleo es Nuestro, and please go check out my new podcast called a New History of Old San Antonio, which you can find at www.brandonseale.com
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