A joint lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the family of Jose Wilfredo Perez Jr., a contractor who died in a fatal hydrogen sulfide gas release at the PEMEX Deer Park refinery on Oct. 10.

The highly-flammable and toxic gas killed two people and 35 others had to be treated at the Pemex facility in Deer Park.

Mexico's taking control of its oil from U.S. and British companies is taught in schools and celebrated every year.

Romero Deschamps will finally be resigning from his symbolic post as a worker at Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex, President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador announced Tuesday, March 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Ismael Rojas, File)MEXICO CITY – The former leader of Mexico’s oil workers’ union will finally be resigning from his symbolic post as a worker at the state-owned oil company Pemex, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Tuesday. The resignation marks an end to the decades-long career of Carlos Romero Deschamps, once considered one of the most powerful and corrupt figures in Mexico. AdThis week, the beleaguered oil company has reportedly reached a deal with the state-owned electrical power utility to offload stocks of fuel oil that Pemex can't get rid of. The utility will take the heavily polluting fuel oil to burn at power plants, and return natural gas that Pemex cannot produce enough of.