The gang's sale

National The privatization and the public deceit The gang's sale By: Carlos Damian November 6, 2013 It govern and PAN negotiates so that the IP shares oil earnings Mexico. - The final design of the contracts proposed by president EPN'S government to allow the participation of companies privates in the oil industry is in Congress’ hands, Emilio Lozoya Austin affirmed (ELA), general director of Pemex. The explanation was made by the official the same day in that The Wall Street Journal published that president EPN'S government and leaders of the PAN are in advanced negotiations to incorporate in the energy reformation the possibility that private companies “share” with Pemex it leaves of the oil production. Up to now, the federal government and the PRI that it has simple majority in the Congress, they defend that the energy reformation only search that the private companies assume part of the risk that now Pemex runs in the exploration and exploitation of the petroleum in exchange for receiving a part of the derived earnings of the sale of the raw one. "The privatization won't give, that is a lie", it assured yesterday (11/6/13) ELA, to participate in the plenary session of the national bureau of the Financial Group Banorte-Ixe that gathered consultants of the institution. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) it published that the “government's high representatives and important members of the PAN are in advanced negotiations to seal an agreement that would allow to the Mexican State to share the oil production, as well as to grant license contracts designed to consent to deposits of schist gas and raw in deep waters, according to three people that participate in the conversations, although they noticed that it continues there being obstacles in the road". The most important characteristic in the energy proposal of the EPN/Videgaray/Aspe is that the State will continue maintaining the property of the oil reservations and of Pemex, ELA said in a panel that was moderated by Jose Córdoba Montoya who was executive of the Office of the Presidency during the government of Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988 - 1994). The reformation project to the articles 27 and 28 of the Constitution, presented to the Senate in August. "It allows Pemex to share the risk with private companies, to increase the production and to avoid middlemen", ELA assured. The proposal was plentiful, it looks for that the company State’s property it has “partners aligned with the risk that Pemex is taking and to share the risk we are promoting contracts and we will see what it approves the Congress in next weeks". Without it levied, it delimited, any company that participates in the industry requires legal certainty and this is something that the Congress, it should bear in mind". The informative note of the WSJ mentioned that the plan that they negotiate the government and the PAN is to have a verdict on the initiative of reformation energetic to be voted in the Senate at the end of November. The government aimed the newspaper it hopes both Chambers vote it before year end. Yesterday (6/11/13), without mentioning the publication, ELA said that the energy reformation is a great opportunity for the country and “we hope the Congress grants us this gift for final of year." The public deceit According to WSJ, the government of EPN and the PAN they carry out “advanced negotiations” to promote a legal reformation that “would allow to the Mexican State to share the oil production, as well as to grant license contracts designed to consent to deposits of gas schist and raw in deep waters". The newspaper points out that this reformation proposal is “more ambitious” than the initiative had presented for some months by the Federal Executive, and also it also advances the possibility to subscribe contracts of “utility shared” in energy matter with private companies, and in the event of being approved, “Mexico would pass of being an energy market controlled by a single national entity PEMEX, to be a market based on the competition, where the private companies could explore and to produce hydrocarbons for its bill, under contract with the Mexican State. Although such versions were denied yesterday (11/6/13) same for the general director ELA. The certain thing is that they are consistent with the erratic and very opaque character of the official speech in what refers to the legal modifications in energy matter that they will be discussed in the Congress during the current ordinary period of sessions. It should remember that in some weeks, with the desire of making presentable the initiative that promotes the delivery of the oil rent by means of the mentioned contracts of shared utility, the official publicity has appealed to the opposite’s watchword of “not to the privatization” and it has insisted in that Pemex won't be given to the private capital, in what constitutes a campaign of disinformation: after all, although it is not necessary to transform to the company State’s property into a private entity to transfer at the hands of particular substantial segments of the oil industry, and in their case, the whole rent obtained by the sale of raw. The mistrust multiply for the fact that, before the evidence that the partial or total privatization of the energy sector raises the population's majority rejection, the régime it has opted to disguise its proposal as recovery of the former president's ideas Lazaro Cardenas del Rio, in what constitutes a clear historical distortion of the oil expropriation of 1938 and of its main author. However, the widespread perception that the governing group looks for to involve to the private capital in the oil industry in a much bigger scale to which is admitted, it gets paid it forces by the light of the fiscal package recently approved in the Congress of the Union: indeed, it is difficult to explain a requirement of public resources as which will be obtained in this fiscal package. The package includes the recruiting of public debt for 53 thousand 333 million dollars although we infer that it is to cover the lack of derived resources of the oil privatization; the population is placed amid the national looting. But this is a double looting: one point is at the hands of privates and transnational, and the other one will be due to the fiscal reformation, in which the taxpayers will pay short term the privatization of the strategic national companies in hands of The States that shows off its own energy consumption to these dates is guaranteed by their own energy sources, although anything says that the oil reservations of Mexico will pass to its own national bill, way the transnational ones oil. The mail of Charly In the recently approved one the federal budget for 2014 the deputies assigned a federal budget of more than 510 million dollars to a public organism that was privatized: the complex petrochemical Pajaritos that even changed already name. Senators Dolores Padierna (DP) and Luis Sanchez both of the PRD, it has stood out that those resources are but of double the cost of the petrochemical one and four times more than that that the private company Mexichem was invested to buy 56 percent of the actions of the complex. We believe that it is a stupidity; if we bear in mind that Pemex kept 44 percent of the actions, have to contribute four times the capital that should invest the majority part. In this informative line DP adds that “in fact is of a deviation of public resources for private business". It explained that 171 millions 814 thousand 927 dollars were labeled to a public entity that doesn't exist in the practice , since the public-private association agreement among petrochemical Pemex and Mexichem that Antonio del Valle head, the complex petrochemical Pajaritos directs doesn't exist. The senators detailed that the PRD presented an agreement point so that the Senate requests to the Secretary of Treasury that it doesn't give those resources and cancel the 17 labeled projects of that complex until an audit is made to the state-private agreement. A pursuit should be given to all the documents that there has signed Pemex to backs of the Congress in relation to Pajaritos - Mexichem. Before these facts we should demand to the federal government that behaves with truthfulness and face transparency to the society, and expose their purpose of later financial help for sale from energy to transnational foreigners. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 2-3, November 7, 2013).