A hermeneutical exercise on the oil phenomenon in Mexico

Following his recent publication of the work "Energy Reform in Mexico" for the Chamber of Deputies last May, this essay discusses Dr. Victor Rodriguez-Padilla's text "100 years of Oil in Mexico" from the hermeneutic philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer. This involves commenting on the definition of oil to form a hermeneutic sense of the Mexican collective consciousness, its links with nationalism and the complex process of recovery that the people of Mexico experienced throughout the twentieth century. Delving into the relationship between interpreter and author, and immersing ourselves in the historical unfolding of oil from its links with morality, we end by analyzing the axiological and symbolic foundation that occurs in the text.