[Smokin' Joe]

Situated in the hot, swampy lowlands of southeast Mexico's Tabasco state, the Bellota complex was built in 1992 and remains one of the country's most modern petroleum facilities. But daily output from surrounding fields has fallen to only 35,000 barrels of oil, about one-quarter of the average during the 1990s, said Rodriguez, the oil-field boss

There is a solution. Drill and develop other areas, and pipeline the crude to the refinery complexes.

101, really, but it requires major investment, and you can't do that if the government is siphoning off the money to buy votes.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I was involved in the Mexican oil exploration.
Please see my thread "Looters of Mexico".
Money is in old pesos.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299642/posts

[hershey]

Major investment needed is right. And guess whose hand is heading for your wallet. Fox suggested the US 'invest in rebuilding Mexico's infrastructure' as a way of luring Mexicans to return home. (That's the carrot). Oil fields are included, along with roads, schools, hospitals, etc.. Like it or not, North American Union here we come.