"ametica" - 1 õppematerjal

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c.,leaving behind gigantic asalt heads believed to represent their rulers.Most are n display in Mxico's museums, including the Museum o Anthropology in Xalap (right), the capital of Veracruz state. Many of the Olmec sities were locates atop vast salt domes, witch, to modern feologists, means the presence of oil.Today that oil fuels a billon-dollar industry, second only to manufacturing.Mexico is the leading oil producer in Latin Ametica, with the world's eighth largest reserves.Yet even the gargantuan oil industry has been vulnerable during the country's economic crisis.To raise cash to service the national debt, Mexico's stateowned petroleum company,Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, has been hanging `'For sale" signs on plants that produce petrochemicals for photographic film,antifreeze, nylon stockings, nd fertilizers. Sharing the Gulf with Pemex oil tankers in Veracruz's fishing fleet, the largest in Mexico