Mexican peasants block access to oil in protest

An estimated 10,000 armed peasants have cut off roads to some of the nation's richest oil fields, charging the state-owned oil monopoly with destroying their crops, officials disclosed. Spokesmen for Petroleos Mexicano's said the peasant protest has halted production of 300,000 barrels of oil per day and two-thirds of Mexico's daily gas consumption

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