Pemex is Mexico’s state-owned oil company. (Photo: Creative Commons)

Britain’s £75 million aid project to open up Mexican oil to UK business

The UK programme, lasting from 2017 until 2023, is run through the Foreign Office’s Prosperity Fund, which claims to promote “inclusive economic growth needed to reduce poverty in partner countries”. Its budget is £74.5m.  But government project documents point to “prosperity interventions” that “will open up new markets” with “UK business able to benefit”.  The […]

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