Mexico’s government said Wednesday it will support troubled state-oil firm Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, with $4.2 billion in fresh capital and money to make this year’s pension payments, a step some analysts saw as insufficient if oil prices remain low. Depressed oil prices and declining oil production have led to a liquidity crunch in recent months for Pemex, Mexico’s largest company by sales and the world’s eighth-largest oil producer. The move was widely expected after the government repeatedly said it would provide financial support to Pemex, which contributes nearly 20% of the federal budget. But some observers were expecting a bolder recapitalization, given that Pemex owes about $6.9 billion in overdue payments to suppliers and the firm’s total unfunded pension-liabilities amount to $86 billion. “This is not a long-term solution, but rather a bandage to ease […]