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EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Government Loaned Mexican Government More Than $1 Billion to Drill Oil in Gulf of Mexico Last Year; Has $1 Billion More Planned For This Year
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
By Matt Cover, Staff Writer

The Chevron Genesis Oil Rig Platform in the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans, La. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Export-Import Bank, an independent federal agency, loaned more than $1 billion to the Mexican state oil company PEMEX in 2009 to support the company’s oil drilling in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The bank has another $1 billion in loans in the pipeline for 2010, unless Congress objects.