Forget filibusters and picket signs, a good old-fashioned striptease is the new way to protest the passage of a bill.
Demonstrating how a new energy bill would potentially strip Mexico’s land of its oil and be a “plunder to the nation,” Congressman Antonio Garcia Conejo of the Democratic Revolution Party stripped down to his underwear during a speech in front of Mexico’s congress on Wednesday, the BBC reported.
“This is how you’re stripping the nation. Where is the benefit?” he told the assembly.
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The historic new energy bill will allow foreign private energy companies to drill for oil and gas in the country for the first time since the country nationalized oil in 1938. Since then, state-run oil company Pemex has had a monopoly on production in the country, according to CBS News.
Fearful that the bill would bring U.S. domination over Mexico’s oil, as was the case before 1938, other oppositionists also attempted to halt discussion of the bill by blocking the entrance to the main chamber of the House of Deputies with chairs and tables, CBS reported. As voting began for the bill, they continued to disrupt proceedings by shouting “The homeland is not for sale! The homeland is not for sale!”
Source: HuffPost
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