Elected just over a year ago, President Enrique Pena Nieto and his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) forged a coalition with the conservative National Action Party (PAN) to alter the long-standing constitutional ban on private-sector exploitation of oil.
Pena Nieto, who campaigned on a reform agenda, said in a statement that the bill would bring sustainable energy supplies, economic growth and jobs for generations to come.
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