Mexican peasants block access to oil in protest
January 21, 1981
Mexico City
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