El Petroleo es Nuestro: A History of Oil in Mexico
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
09 - Slouching towards Reform
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cantarell peaks. Chicontepec comes up dry. And the Multiple Service Contracts fail to produce an increase in foreign investment or in the production o...
08 - Yeah, Another Crisis
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Peso Devaluation of 1994 and fallout from the Carlos Salinas administration opens the door to the election of the first non-PRI president of Mexic...
07 - The Lost Decade
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mexico limps through the 1980's following a collapse in oil prices and an effective default on its national debt. When the Harvard-educated, neol...
04 - The Golden Age of Pemex
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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, makin...
06 - Managing Abundance
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
05 - Poor Planning
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we struggle to make sense of PEMEX's adolescent period. Great measures - such as the formation of the Instituto Mexicano de Petr...
10 - The Mexican Energy Reform
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Mex...
11 - What's Wrong with Mexico
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nothing's "wrong" with Mexico of course...but what makes it so different and so maddening?Recommended reading: Luis Rubio's "...
03 - The Expropriation
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On March 18, 1938, Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas expropriated the properties of the American, English, and Dutch oil companies operating in Mexico...
02 - Revolución
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The oil companies withdraw from Mexican society as Revolution ravages the country. As Post-Revolutionary governments reassert control over the country...
01 - The Oilfinders
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Porfirio Diaz, Standard Oil, Weetman Pearson (El Aguila), Edward Doheny (La Huasteca), and gushers! Suggested reading: Jonathan C. Brown, "Oil an...
10,000 Listeners and a New Podcast!
09 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...