Here Comes Oil Privatization!
Fisgón, El
SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2008 Here Comes Oil Privatization! enOugh with yOur pOpulisM. the gOvernMent has tO sell the Oil industry. why? because i want tO buy it. by el Fisgón Oil has...
...Oil is vital tO the Mexican ecOnOMy...
...and spanish Oil cOMpanies want the Mexican Oil reserves, and calderOn seeMs ready tO hand theM Over...
...they dOn’t understand business...
...nOw calderOn and his allies want tO legalize privatizatiOn, which is still prOhibited by the cOnstitutiOn...
...public cOMpanies are inefficient, but if they are privatized cOrruptiOn will end, there will be better service . . . what...
...report: mexico ii privatizing Oil is putting MexicO’s present and future at risk, the pOssibility Of becOMing an independent cOuntry...
...in 2006, peMex’s sales were Over $90 billiOn...
...yes, because the neOliberal gOvernMents have wanted tO privatize it fOr years...
...enOugh with yOur pOpulisM...
...by el Fisgón Oil has sustained the Mexican ecOnOMy since lazarO cardenas exprOpriated it in 1938 and fOunded the state Oil cOMpany, peMex...
...SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2008 nevertheless, they haven’t succeeded in bankrupting peMex...
...i exprOpriate fOr sOvereignty, fOr the future Of MexicO … and because the fOreign Oil cOMpanies are a bunch Of crOOks...
...SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2008 Here Comes Oil Privatization...
...extracting a barrel Of Oil cOsts $3, and it sells fOr MOre than $100...
...NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS , the neOliberals have barely invested anything in the petrOcheMical industry...
...34 but it paid $79 billiOn tO the gOvernMent in taxes...
...we’ve gOtten tO the pOint Of selling cheap crude, Only tO buy back 30% Of the gasOline we cOnsuMe at high prices...
...it alMOst seeMs that he has cOMMitMents tO the investOrs and MultinatiOnals that are deManding that he give theM the Oil...
...peMex is the secOnd-largest Oil cOMpany in the wOrld befOre taxes, but the gOvernMent is de-capitalizing, iMpOverishing, and bleeding it...
...33 , , listen… but peMex has becOMe a disaster...
...is this yet anOther cOst Of the 2006 electOral fraud...
...fOr decades, the cOrruptiOn Of the Oil wOrkers uniOn, stprM, and its leader carlOs rOMerO deschaMps, has been widespread, but far frOM fighting it, the neOliberal gOvernMents have nOurished it...
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...35 i tOld yOu, fOr the cOMMissiOn… NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS , a debate has begun in the senate, and it has been clear that the panistas lack arguMents tO defend their refOrM...
...hOw can yOu say with a straight face that privatizatiOn will end cOrruptiOn after the banking scandals, the phOny bailOuts, the sugar scandal, the sale Of Mexicana airlines...
...alMOst all went tO huge salaries fOr the bureaucracy, lavish expenditures, and cOntracts fOr fOx’s in-laws...
...why are yOu sO insistent...
...we dOn’t have the fOrce Of lOgic, but we dO have the lOgic Of fOrce...
...frOM all this, practically nOthing was reinvested in peMex...
...report: mexico ii tOday, Oil is the principal sOurce Of incOMe in MexicO...
...because i want tO buy it...
...fOr every pesO the gOvernMent spends, 40 centavOs cOMe frOM Oil...
...report: mexico ii nO...
...well, i’M gOnna keep at it...
...and this is what fOrMer presidents salinas, zedillO, fOx, and nOw calderOn have tried tO dO with peMex...
...Oil is the greatest business in the wOrld...
...cOuld that be why bOth washingtOn and Madrid uncOnditiOnally suppOrt calderOn’s illegitiMate presidency...
...and fOr bush and the Oil cOMpanies...
...nOnetheless, a legislative strike by the OppOsitiOn cOMbined with grassrOOts MObilizatiOn stOpped this prOject...
...Oil is a nOnrenewable resOurce, and every day the wOrld has fewer prOven reserves...
...at the beginning Of 2008, the pan, allied with the pri, tried tO quickly apprOve the Oil privatizatiOn...
...the greatest business in the wOrld is the cOMMissiOn sOMebOdy’s gOing tO Make fOr selling peMex at bargainbaseMent prices...
...fOr 25 years, nOt a single refinery has been built On Mexican sOil...
...well, yes...
...the u.s...
...report: mexico ii every tiMe the neOliberal gOvernMents want tO privatize a cOMpany, first they bankrupt it...
...fOr washingtOn, it is strategic tO apprOpriate all the big prOven reserves On the planet...
...in fact, the privatizatiOn Of Oil is already under way aMid investMent in related activities and riskcOntracts (which viOlate the cOnstitutiOn...
...but calder0n insists On energy refOrM...
...the gOvernMent has tO sell the Oil industry...
...what’s MOre, it is knOwn that there are at least five cOntracts pending with fOreign Oil cOMpanies, and that they want tO give texacO the cOuntry’s largest systeM Of Oil ducts...
...tO apprOpriate the reserves Of the Middle east, washingtOn started the wars in afghanistan and iraq...
...industry needs electricity and Oil...
...privatizing Oil is stealing frOM the natiOn...
...in 2006, because Of the rise Of Oil prices On the wOrld Market, MexicO received $70 billiOn extra...
...during the fOx adMinistratiOn, the gOvernMent received $335 billiOn frOM Oil...
...business is what the gOvernMent gives yOu, nOt what yOu give tO theM...
...sO tO Make it wOrth yOur while, we Made the adMinistratiOn extreMely cOrrupt...
Vol. 41 • September 2008 • No. 5
