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Sarah Palin may not have much experience with the rest of the world—she didn’t even hold a passport until well after her 40th birthday—but the rest of the world has had enough experience with her to know exactly what it thinks. Those thoughts range from...

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  • Mexico's Oil Fetish

    Joseph Contreras | Feb 1, 2008 11:55 AM
    In an age when even Fidel Castro has rolled out the welcome mat for foreign energy companies wanting to drill for oil off Cuba's shores, the Mexican left is stubbornly vowing to uphold the national government's monopoly on oil and electricity production. State ownership of energy resources is the last sacred-cow left over from decades of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, during which a large chunk of the Mexican economy belonged to the government and certain strategic industries were off-limits to foreign investment. When President Carlos Salinas de Gortari sold off the phone company, a television network, two airlines, several banks and hundreds of other public-sector enterprises in the 1990s, the notoriously corrupt and inefficient PEMEX oil corporation and two state-owned electrical power utilities were withheld from the auction block for reasons that had more to do with patriotic sentimentality than rational economic policy. More
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