NOT SEXY PHOTOS: Mexican Congressman Strips in Protest

Today's historic vote in the Mexican Congress opening the country's state-run oil industry to outside investors for the first time in 70 years was preceded by one legislator's striptease.

A leftist party member Antonio Garcia Conejo during his speech removed his clothes to stress his idea that the bill is a "plunder of the nation."

The bill under question will allow the government to give private foreign and domestic companies contracts and licenses to explore and drill for oil and gas. Currently such deals are prohibited according to the Constitution of Mexico.

Conejo and other bill opponents claimed that as a result of law passing multinationals would regain the sort of domination they had over Mexico's oil before 1938.

Standing in his underwear on the dais, the outraged lawmaker accused the ruling party of depleting the nation's assets by signing off on past privatizations of telecommunications. '

"This is how you're stripping the nation. Where is the benefit? How shameful! But this doesn't embarrass me. You, too, have a body."

However, most oil analysts supported the ideas conveyed in the bill hashed out by President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party and the conservative National Action Party.
In their opinion, such measure is needed to rescue Mexico's moribund oil industry.
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