PEMEX AUCTION
Tomás Oropeza Berumen
By applying shock therapy Felipe Calderón's government now aims to take advantage of the paralysis caused by fear and confusion generated by the drug war, to accelerate the privatization of the assets of the nation that still after 30 years of neoliberalism.
On March 1, Juan José Suárez Coppel, director of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) announced that Pemex will invite private capital, domestic and foreign, to invest in exploration incentive and exploitation of black gold in the mature fields south of the Gulf of Mexico.
Magallanes, Carrizal and Sanctuary are some of the sites where the capitalists can invest in a first phase. Currently these fields are extracted from 13 000 barrels per day and this figure could rise to 50 000 and take a leap next year to 70 thousand barrels per day. Shortly later he opened the mature fields of northern Veracruz Tertiary oil projects (Chicontepec).
foreign companies have expressed interest in doing business are: Tecpetrol, Repsol, British Petroleum and Petrosantander. Nationally, groups Carso (Carlos Slim) and Diavaz.
Incentive contracts are those in which the fixed payment is added a prize for each barrel produced by individuals. This means that it will ultimately be the motive of capitalist profit guidance that will prevail as the exploitation of this wealth that under the Mexican Constitution belongs to the nation and the only Mexican state to be exploited.
The policy decision to open Pemex to private capital is based on a forced interpretation of the reforms carried out in 2008 oil.
If the investor does not find oil, you are guaranteed the recovery of 70 percent of the costs incurred. But if it succeeds find the oil to 70 percent of costs, a fee is added resulting in an equation which, among other variables including the volume of production.
The provision establishes a flat 40 percent local content of inputs is far from what is required in other countries that protect their economies, like Brazil, which requires at least 75 percent local content and Norway, where one hundred percent.
The announcement of the sale of Pemex has generated rejection. Professional adviser for Pemex, Rogelio Gasca, incentive contracts are unconstitutional. The National Chamber of Transformation Industries (Canacintra) in Gilberto's voice Ortiz, vice chair of the Energy business organization considered a fumble privatize the source from which the 40 percent of government revenue. Is half unconstitutional, delivering abroad and dismantle Pemex said.
The illegality of the measure is not alluded to problems understanding what is stated in Article 27 of the Constitution which reads: "The Nation direct ownership of all natural resources of the continental shelf and sockets submarines of the islands of all minerals or substances in veins, ledges, masses or ore pockets, form deposits of a nature distinct from the components of land, such as the minerals are extracted metals and metalloids in the industry ... solid mineral fuels, oil and all carbons of solid, liquid or gaseous.
In Congress there was overlap between PRI and PRD to consider unconstitutional the notice of Suarez Coppel. But PRI Senator Francisco Labastida said that said contracts are legal and "beneficial" for Mexico.
So far the people have not expressed an opinion on this issue in other countries would have been of a social uprising against a government which, like Calderon, put on auction the highest source of income country. But here no such thing has occurred because the great national problems are not cause for debate and the political class is currently under fierce internal struggle to define the 2012 presidential sighing. In this context
was Calderón's visit to Washington, who attended the call of President Barack Obama to pay him a report on the situation of the colony south of the Rio Bravo.
of how it went, the photographs speak to this meeting were published and where you can see the state of Michoacan with a distorted face and look of a beaten dog.
The specialist awkward gringo ambassador Carlos Pascual failed states, which both despises the military and Mexican police who mocks the papers sent by the embassy to the White House delivered by wiki Leakes to La Jornada, stays in Mexico, despite complaints from the manager of Los Pinos.
In this framework were arrested several soldiers and Mexican army officers with nearly a ton of cocaine transported in olive green trucks across thousands of miles to Tijuana, Baja California.
many uncomfortable questions arise: to which of the officers were working cartels? How is it possible that his commanders were not aware of what was moving in that convoy that passed through dozens of checkpoints? Has been co-opted a faction of the army by the drug?
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