Mexico: As Mexican government takes step towards opening up the country's state-run oil industry to outside investors for the first time in 70 years a Congress man Antonio Garcia Conejo took off his clothes in Parliament during the debate in angry protest against the historic energy privatization bill.
Antonio Garcia Conejo, a member of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, stripped down to his underwear during a speech to dramatize his assertion the bill is a "plunder of the nation".
With the passage of the bill, the government will be able to give private foreign and domestic companies contracts and licences to explore and drill for oil and gas, deals now prohibited under Mexico's constitution.
Opponents fear that with the introduction of this bill multinationals will once again regain the sort of domination they had over Mexico's oil before 1938.
