Heavy rains hit Veracruz while Pemex reports debt reductions and Mexico's stock benchmark rises.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-08 00:33Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A dark stormy sky looms over a Veracruz cityscape with flooded streets and military personnel in the foreground, as a Pemex refinery stands in the distance with smoke billowing from its stacks, and people in the streets look up at the stormy weather.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A dark stormy sky looms over a Veracruz cityscape with flooded streets and military personnel in the foreground, as a Pemex refinery stands in the distance with smoke billowing from its stacks, and people in the streets look up at the stormy weather. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
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SHCP head backs Pemex tax burden reduction as analysts warn of fiscal costs
The finance ministry has endorsed the measure while independent analysts outline projected budget and regional revenue impacts.
By Diego Lozano · 5mEdgar Amador Zamora, head of Mexico's Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, stated before the Chamber of Deputies that reducing Pemex's tax burden is necessary to improve the state oil company's financial and operational situation.
Oscar Ocampo, director of Economic Development at the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness, noted Pemex already carries the lowest tax burden in the country's modern history. The Shared Profit Tax has been reduced from 65% to 30%.
Ocampo warned further cuts would make it impossible for the government to meet its 2027 fiscal target of a 3.9% of GDP budget deficit. A full tax waiver for Pemex would result in 210,800 million pesos in lost public revenue in 2027, equivalent to approximately 0.5% of national GDP.
Katherine Olvera, a researcher at the Economic and Budgetary Research Center, explained the change would reduce revenue shares for federal entities operating in the oil sector. Pemex tax payments feed the Mexican Petroleum Fund, the primary revenue source for oil producing states Campeche, Tabasco and Tamaulipas.
Analysts caution additional fiscal support for Pemex could send a misleading signal to investors and rating agencies over the company's ability to improve performance.
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