US Government Bank Plays Major Role in Pemex Investment Drive

摘要

The Export-Import Bank of the United States, the US government’s official export- credit agency, has become a major lender to Pemex, Mexico’s state oil firm. The bank’s activities mean that, despite a constitutional ban on direct foreign invest- ment in Mexico’s oil sector, the US govern- ment is intimately involved in financing Pe- mex’s investment plans.