The subsidiaries opaqueness of Pemex: 25 years

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Thefts to the petroleum in their pipelines by Cartels
The subsidiaries opaqueness of Pemex: 25 years
By: Carlos Damián October 19, 2010
From 1985 are generated companies that they are would be of the official control
México. - These 16 subsidiary companies that were created to depart of 1985 are devoted to market crude, to offer advising and services. Furthermore Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has constituted five financial figures (Capital Pemex, Pemex Finance, Pemex Project Funding Master Trust, Fideicommissum F/163 and RepCon Lux) that accomplish debt emission and they are holder of bonds in the international markets, reveal the constitutive minutes of some of the subsidiaries.

As regards, Fluvio Ruiz Alarcon, independent counselor of Pemex, he was thinking that the adequate inspection of the public resources of the public resources in PMI International Trade is a slope that is going beyond a legal controversy between public and private right. "Finally, this dispute there can and it must be amended through the various legislative procedures with those which count the Congress of the Union. The parliamentarians will have the last word on how to have greater control and inspection of the public resources. This matter must be centered in the area of the transparency and accounts surrender, right to which all citizens would have to have access through counting on information truth. Timely and clear".

After of the 27 of May of 1985, was constituted in London, Pemex Services Europe Limited; thereinafter, between 1987 and 1988 was established PMI Services BV, in Amsterdam, Holland; below, 24 of May of 1989 – during six years elapsed of Carlos Saline of Gortari, and management to the front of Pemex of Francisco Rojas Gutierrez -, is constituted in the Distrito Federal, before the notary public Luis de Angoitia y Gaxiola. PMI International Trade, which has as object the marketing, export and import of all type of products or merchandises, they will be matters outweigh, natural products or derivatives from an industrial process, but excluding the marketing in national territory in those areas reserved for Pemex.

In January 13, 1993 is created other designated subsidiary PMI North America; 19 of December of 1996 Marcela Marquez Alonso, legal assistant director of PMI International Trade, establishes in Mexico a branch of PMI Marine Limited, domiciled in Dublin, Ireland. For 30 of December of 2005 Jesus Fariza Requejo, associate of Garrigues, Spanish dispatch that offers legal and tax advice services intervenes in name and representation of PMI Holdings NV, to change the denomination and the headquarters of the subsidiary that now is called Holdings Petroleos España, and goes from a domicile in the Dutch Antilles to Spain.

These are some of the subsidiaries in the financial legal studding of Pemex those which have remained it exempt of inspection by the Congress of the Union remaining to discretion of the managers of Pemex, by be constituted as private entities.

Explosion in the Refinery of Cadereyta
On tuesday, 7 of September occurred an explosion caused by the leaked in a compressor of hydrogen of the refinery of Cadereyta, N. L., causing the death of the Engineer Juan Salvador Sanchez Páes and resulted gravely injured the operating Rodolfo Montemayor Mota and Blas Jaime Segura Carballo, in addition to injuries of others working five of the contractor Cicsa. Pemex in a press communiqué said "accomplishes the analysis cause - root of this incident".

Theft suspicion to Pemex by large criminal groups
Calculate that temporarily the crude process will reduce of 215 thousand to 200 thousand daily barrels, while is normalized the situation since two plants remained stops. Pemex it has suffered in their large pipelines gasoline thefts, diesel and other derivatives but due to the current legislation that it does not sanction such offenses have been seen obligated to release them however the logistics and operation of the large thefts -milks of pipelines - make to think about the action taken by corporative of criminals, or well of cartels of drug-traffickers.

In this sense would be convenient to include a chronicle of Tracy Wilkinson in the Angeles Times, by chance appeared a day before the explosion in a refinery of Pemex that is found in the north of Mexico, about the great metropolis of Monterrey, N. L. The American reporter narrates how the drug-trafficker bands are affecting gravely the operations of Pemex. In this chronicle narrates a series of offenses: five personnel of Pemex were kidnapped in Burgos in May past; they are added to other 30 plagiarized that were working for private contractors. They have not appeared. The oil community is terrorized.

In this series of thefts no longer only ransack the resources to Pemex the union leaders, headed by the untouchable of the PRI-AN, Carlos Romero Deschamps, near the frauds endless number of the officials and political that non-capitalize to Pemex. Now the oil Company is found under the siege of the mafias and not only of the Union of Pemex. The process of the explosion in Pemex will be gone to the file, resting the peace of the dead? (La Jornada, economia, p. 8, September 8, 2010).