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"That was Randy, that's exactly what he would do," Mr. Zepeda said.

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Pictured from left to right are production team members Martin Zepeda Jr., Martin Zepeda and Jason Paskus.

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Raúl Zepeda of the blog Banalidades y Algo de Teoría [es] (Commodities and Some Theory) describes streets of the city after the Friday's first health warnings:

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"Look at my hands," Mr. Zepeda said, stretching trembling hands outward.

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"The door was always open and everyone was welcome, that's how the Fannins were," said Mason Zepeda, a stylist at a nearby shop who, like other stylists around town, often stopped by the Salon Meritage to talk with Mr. Fannin and his wife.

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Mr. Zepeda said his fledgling National Hydrocarbons Commission also is out of its depth, with a staff of just 60 and a budget of $7.3 million, about 2% of what its Washington counterpart spent last year.

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Experts say that Mr. Zepeda is speaking out publicly in an effort to overcome resistance to oversight among top officials at Pemex and in the Energy Ministry, which hope off-shore discoveries will revive Mexico's declining oil industry.

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While U.S. offshore inspectors zip to faraway drilling platforms on helicopters, Mr. Zepeda said in an interview, "all I have is a borrowed car," an old Nissan Sentra belonging to Mexico's Energy Ministry, which has the ultimate say about where the oil company can drill.

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The regulator's chief, Juan Carlos Zepeda, said Petróleos Mexicanos has relatively little experience with deep-water drilling, much less with the ultra-deep wells—those at depths exceeding 6,000 feet—that it could tackle as soon as next month.

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Mr. Zepeda had heard the same story that was making its way through the tightly connected small-town beauty industry: That as the gunman walked through the door with weapons drawn, Mr. Fannin approached him—perhaps to protect his customers and employees—and was the first one shot.

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