SME

"Por último, el próximo 27 de septiembre se cumplen 50 años de la nacionalización de la industria eléctrica. En este año de centenarios se ha pretendido olvidar este semicentenario, y eso no lo debemos hacer."

Taken from Antonio Gershenson.

SME is the Mexican Electrical Workers Union, currently on strike.

My translation:

Finally, next September 27, is the 50^th anniversary of the electric industry nationalization. In this centennials year there is the pretension to forget this half centennial, and we should not do that.

Gershenson is a Mexican journalist. He is technically competent, and like myself, supports the people's business.

Below you can see an animation of Tesla vs. Edison. I support Tesla because Edison represents monopoly, and private enterprise to satisfy people's needs. Even though, I support patents and the profit motive, I prefer that society eventually manages the means of production, in this case electrical energy production.

Mexico is in the midst of an important struggle to define itself, as a country for the masses, or for the elites.

I celebrate here the nationalization of the electric company, named CFE, Federal Electricity Commission. I was ten years old then, I read the papers, and felt proud to be Mexican, since my uncles have fought against a dictator, Porfirio Díaz, and had given us a democratic country, sometimes paying with their own blood. President Adolfo López Mateos, followed in the steps of another great Mexican president; General Lázaro Cárdenas, who nationalized the oil industry in 1938, ten years before I was born. López Mateos nationalized the electric company in 1960.

Long Live Pemex, and CFE!