Mexican Lawmaker Strips Naked To Protest Against A Controversial Bill

Mexican Congress opening the country's state-run oil industry to outside investors for the first time in 70 years was preceded by passionate debate, fisticuffs – and one legislator's striptease.


Antonio Garcia Conejo, a member of the Leftist Democratic Revolution Party, stripped down to his underwear during a speech on Wednesday to dramatize his assertion the bill is a 'plunder of the nation.'


The 353-134 vote will allow the government to give private foreign and domestic companies contracts and licenses to explore and drill for oil and gas, deals now prohibited under Mexico's constitution.