Tag: oil

• Poverty, inevitability, and synthetic clothing

  When I arrived back in Mexico City in January, everyone was talking about the lines for gas. Recently-inaugurated president López Obrador shut down parts of the national oil and gas distribution network to combat oil theft. I enjoyed the memes doing the rounds, but didn’t think too much more about gas. In the days after […]

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  March 11, 2019

  Research

  Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Hidalgo, Mexico, oil, Tlahuelilpan, Writing