The main reason Cárdenas nationalized Mexico’s oil industry was to

In 1938, President Lázaro Cárdenas nationalized Mexico’s oil industry, placing it under Mexican control. The main goal was for Mexico and its people to receive the profits and benefits from the country’s oil rather than having foreign companies control the industry. Thus, the best answer is “enable the country to get direct benefit from its vast supplies.”

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