The report about Pemex

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The report about Pemex
By: Carlos Damián July 16, 2012
The magazine reveals a net of illicit between officials and private
México. - The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) it solved this Wednesday (7/4/12) to deny the “habeas corpus” requested by several managers and a Mexican former official of Petroleum (Pemex) that were exhibited by the magazine ' Contralínea' in a report on presumed facts of corruption among public servants and privates that benefitted with multiple contracts and public bids. "The first room of the Court concluded, when being pronounced on the constitutional right to the freedom of information in a context of journalistic investigation regarding contracts taken place by Pemex that the information diffused in the refuted columns, the same as the expressions used in the same ones”.

It is of public relevance, and it is not a matter among privates, reason why it denied the direct “habeas corpus” 8/20012 to the managers involved in the case", it exposed the department of social communication from the SCJN when emitting an official statement on the resolutely points of this controversy. This case was given between the months of January of 2007 and December of 2008, a group of journalists they made an investigation to describe the form in that a former official of Pemex, associated with its brother-in-law and the brother of this man, they acted, by means of diverse societies, as " lobbyists " or intermediaries in multiple and considerable contracts in bids taken place by the Pemex and different private companies dedicated to the oil sector.

The public foreign debt
The gross balance of the foreign debt of the Mexican public sector (6/2/12) it registered an elevation of 4 thousand 800 million dollars between January and April of 2012, it informed the Ministry of Treasury and Public Credit (SHCP). With this elevation the figures of this indebtedness it arrived to 121 thousand 496.7 million dollars what represented an increment of 122 percent from December of 2006, when it began their administration the current government administration. In absolute terms, the federal government's foreign debt, the organisms and companies propriety of State, as well as of the development banking, it increased in 66 thousand 730.4 million dollars in almost five and a half years, of which a third part corresponded to the conversion of the indebtedness hired by third person to finance public works of infrastructure of the energy sector, by means of a well-known mechanism as Pidiregas.

The rest was been of new debts. For financing sources, the Ministry of Treasury indicated that for placements of funds in the financial markets of the exterior 37 thousand million dollars were obtained from December of 2006, and it was increased until arriving to a figure of 75 thousand 590.2 million dollars at the end of 2012. An increase of 96 percent during this government. Of the international financial organisms as the World Bank (WB) and the Interamerican of Development (IDB) 14 thousand 961 million dollars were requested in loans, with that which the debit ascended 181 percent on the level of 8 thousand 255.4 millions in that it was in December of 2006.

At the moment the indebtedness with these multilateral organisms ascends to 23 thousand 217 million dollars. To this government's beginning the Ministry of Treasury had an item of “commercial banking” in its structure of classification of the debt for financing sources in which a debt a thousand 578 million dollars appeared. That line has disappeared as such and now another denominated “banking market” in which figures a balance appears for 8 thousand 876.3 million dollars, what represents an increase of 462 percent appears. In “bilateral credits” in December of 2006 one had an indebtedness of 3 thousand 139.2 million dollars. In April of 2012 that category no longer appears, but there is another denominated “external trade” with a figure debtor for 13 thousand 302.9 million dollars; an elevation of 323 percent during the period of this government administration (6/2/12).

The magazine ' contralínea' reveals corruption
The central object of the notes of the newspaper consisted on highlighting that, behind the mentioned contracting, there was a net that would allow the celebration of the contracts mentioned by means of the traffic of influences and facts of corruption, situation that would be increased by the multiple contractual non-fulfillments in that they incurred the contracting companies. The First Room sustained that the notes of information fulfilled the standard of public relevance, because in them “it was informed about topics of public interest, in connection with activities developed by public personalities and by means of the popularization of contents reinforced by an appropriate work of journalistic investigation". Regarding the public interest, the ministers considered that it had such a character the investigation made about presumed acts of corruption in Pemex, because “it represents the main source of revenues of the Mexican State besides that the company property of the State has a special constitutional régime that not allows it the exploitation of the main energy resources renewable of the country: the petroleum and the natural gas."

The above-mentioned acquired bigger relevance since ”the value of the questioned contracts ascends to thousands of millions of dollars, figures that are paid with public resources and whose inspection is a topic that it concerns all the members of the society". As for the nature of the complaining ones as fellows involved in the journalistic notes, the sentence pointed out that it is private people with public projection, that which is due to the incidence that they have in the society for its professional activities. (La Jornada, economia, p. 19, July 5, 2012).