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Experts Say Pemex Puts Lives at Risk over Maintenance Failures

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By KELIN DILLON  According to data from Mexican Congress’ approved budgets for Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the state-owned gas company could be putting the lives and wellbeing of its employees and the populations residing near Pemex drilling sites at risk due to a lack of continual maintenance within the company’s infrastructure. While figures from 2018 show 17.26 billion pesos in budget

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CFE Plant Towers Collapse From Disrepair

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By KELIN DILLON On Tuesday, March 1, the cooling towers of Mexico’s state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) thermoelectric plant in Mérida, Yucatán, collapsed in an incident facility workers say was triggered by a lack of maintenance.  Ironically, the plant’s structural failure comes amid Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) repeated talk-ups of CFE infrastructure as the executive looks to

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