Pemex
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Pemex is the Mexican state-owned petroleum corporation managed and operated by the Mexican government. It was formed in 1938 by nationalization and expropriation of all private oil companies in Mexico
Pemex refinery in Tula de Allende, Hidalgo
Cantarell Field
Pemex gas station in Morelia, Michoacán
A Pemex gas station in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
Lázaro Cárdenas
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Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was a Mexican revolutionary, army officer, and politician who served as the 51st president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. Previously, he served as a general in the Constitutional
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…had attracted the attention of the Mexican government who then claimed all mineral rights for the state as part of its Constitution. In 1938, President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934–40) sided with oil workers striking against foreign-owned oil companies for an increase in pay and social services. On March 18, 1938, citing…
Cárdenas in the Constitutional Army, c.1913
General Lázaro Cárdenas
Cárdenas decrees nationalization of foreign railways in 1937.
President Cárdenas, with campesinos by Roberto Cueva del Río, watercolor 1937