At the second meeting of this reading group, organized as part of the Fossil Capitalism in the Global South research project at the Neubauer Collegium, the group discussed a selection of readings ahead of the February 24 lecture by Diana Montaño (Assistant Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis). Participants read the introduction of Montaño’s book, Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City (Texas University Press, 2021), and her essay “Ladrones de Luz: Policing Electricity in Mexico City, 1901-1918.”