Ballast six years of public administration

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Ballast six years of public administration
By: Carlos Damián May 31, 2012
Those ' bad handlings' in previous public administrations: Ferrari
México. - In the context of a press conference last Tuesday (5/8/12), Bruno Ferrari (BF), leadership of the Ministry of Economy criticized that the country should dedicate 5 thousand 400 million dollars annually for interests for the payment of a foreign debt “contracted by political thieves". If it takes into pocket that such pronouncements took place in full electoral campaign, and to express question on its opinion of the treatment of the economic topics in the first presidential debate, the points of Ferrari out acquires a way different from the one from a simple critic to “the governments of the past."

The impunity
The character unequivocally electoral of the comment it is so obvious that even the presidential applicant of the PRI, Enrique Peña Nieto (EPN), he responded to the leader of Economy. He said that the mentioned critics are signs of desperation of the current federal administration and it sustained that the government “that has failed to the people of Mexico is that of the last 12 years". So with the pronouncements, as the point ones out the current federal government gives a new sample of his propensity to interfere in processes electorates, with it takes a look toward bolstering candidates of your party or to affect to organizations opposed.

Similar behavior is not only contrary to the effective legal stipulations in the matter and to the most elementary principles of republican decency and respect to the investiture of authorities and officials, but rather it can contribute to make scarce the electoral panorama, like it happened six years ago, for erode the dependability of the processes electorates and to shrink the already punished credibility of the institutions in charge of organizing them. Apart from this, in his pronouncements, so much the official of the PAN like the politician of PRI origin it avoided a central point: the practical nonexistence of penal or administrative consequences with which they have liquidated the episodes of presumed corruption and illicit handling of the public resources for governing, officials, and people of their near circle.

Corruption: expensive and immoral
Indeed, in years and previous decades the society should have suffered episodes of corruption and concealment like those made by Arturo Durazo ex chief of police, in time Jose Lopez Portillo’s federal administration, and for Raul Salinas de Gortari in times that your brother Carlos held the position of president of the Republic, to mention two of the examples mentioned by the own one BF. But another point can be said of the covering that granted the last federal administration from Fox to the traffic of influences in that Martha Sahagun's children incurred to benefit to their companies, or the tolerance shown by the current government in the face of the opacity in the handling of the budget and of the resources oil surpluses of Pemex that characterized to the first federal administration of the PAN.

As for the critics of BF for the costs that continue having for Mexico the “bad handlings” of previous governments, is difficult to imagine a more noxious, expensive and immoral measure that the approval of the Fobaproa-Ipab, legalized by the legislators of the PRI-PAN in Ernesto Zedillo's six year of public administration, -a true robbery to the people of Mexico - in whose context embezzlements were taken that so far have not been clarified and that the society continues paying.

Green energy is sold
A contract to 20 years of duration whose value is of 820 million dollars, it has been authorized by the government of California State, The States. The business consists in that the electricity that will produce the plant Sierra Juarez Energy, located in the Rumorosa, property of Sempra Gas & Power, it will be acquired by its filial San Diego G&E. This is, the American company Sempra will produce green energy of the Mexican side of the frontier, it will carry it through a wired to the American side, and it will sell it to its own filial San Diego G&E. This in turn, will resell it to its clients of the San Diego City. It will assist the consumption of electricity of 64 thousand homes. It is worthy of mentioning that the Baja California’s governor coming of the PAN, Guadalupe Osuna, is happy because this American project will give work to a lot of people.

Although there are some pending in this energy project, president Obama will approve the trans-border line and the construction of a substation that they allows the access to the net of distribution of energy of California, USA. The project is the first step of a plan of more reach to install turbines along a strait of 150 kilometers in the Sierra Juarez's high part. In this energy context, we wonder if it is possible that a foreign company that is located in national territory can mount an electric power plant and later it can take it to its country, without answer of Mexico. It is incredible but it is this way. As good country leased, the Commission Regulatory of Energy has not put any objection. In this occasion the twice deputy federal PAN-man and commissioned today Francisco Xavier Salazar Diaz de Sollano has free hands.

In sum, the omission of considerations like those referred by BF and EPN cause that the declarative exchange among them is little believable, if it is not that inadmissible. Indeed, the country lives for a long time ago in a swamp of corruption and impunity, but it is only explicable in function of the continuity in the old concealment chain and until of complicity trans-six year public administration that characterized to the PRI’s governments, and that it has stayed intact with everything and the change of initials and of colors operated in Los Pinos’ residence for almost 12 years. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 2-5, 10 de Mayo, 2012)