This Week's Analysis Pemex Blast Opens Questions about Mexico Govt Transparency

Weekly InSight | 22 February 2013

This Week's Analysis
Pemex Blast Opens Questions about Mexico Govt Transparency


Nearly three weeks after an explosion that killed 37 people and injured 100 more in the headquarters of Mexico's national oil company, Pemex, the public is far from learning exactly what was behind the tragedy. The government's opaque approach conjures up ghosts of other unexplained events and concerns about what may lie ahead.

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