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Argentina's Petrol Politics

“Argentina recently renationalized a major part of their oil industry by taking back the oil company YPF from the Spanish. YPF (Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales) was founded by the Argentine government in 1922, but in 1993 it was privatized after neo-liberalism swept through most of Latin America. In 1999 the Spanish firm Respol bought YPF, and has owned it ever since. The privatization of YPF was never popular in Argentina…”

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