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the transcendent changes in energy that the government proposes to the nation they touch deep economic and political nerves. Some do it for the same purpose of reforming the Constitution in significant long-debated articles. Others because, if approved, they will affect businesses outside the law but of great importance. The rest because they alter, at the root, the route of the concentrator model that was in vogue for decades in the country. The rest because they imply a crucial assembly for economic growth and development with justice. But, also, because reluctant interests of big capital, local and transnational, are broken.
It is, therefore, essential to deepen the ongoing debate by providing data and visions that allow citizens to form a clear and precise idea of what it means to deny, cut or approve the reform devised by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. We must begin by saying that the Spanish companies that influenced the reformist adventure of both the PRI and the PAN regime of past years have a dark history.
Both Iberdrola and Fenosa, now Naturally, were closely linked to the 1936 coup that unleashed the bloody Spanish civil war. Both, from years prior to that criminal coup, were run by reactionary aristocratic families of that country. The two also came out strengthened from the war due to innumerable perks received from the dictator leader, Francisco Franco. The two families who ran them until recently not only incited the military rebellion, but invested vast resources in their support. Both also founded and captained thousands of paramilitaries who persecuted the so-called red
, euphemism applied to citizens who promoted the Spanish democratic republican regime.
That is the coup plot of the two most important companies that appeared with former presidents Carlos Salinas, Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox, Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto. With them and several of their officials, they exchanged compliments, gifts, ideas and interests. They wanted to reproduce the process carried out within the Franco regime that benefited them so much.
The worst thing is that, to a large extent, they succeeded. Both companies have been the real winners of the famous reforms of 2013. Both, also, induced, on the one hand, the very expensive – for the treasury – parallel electricity market and, on the other, the illegitimate expansion of the natural gas industry by duct. A matter that has been so expensive for thousands of northern citizens (Monterrey).
So, now, Mexicans suffer from this cursed double inheritance: the coup plotter and murderer and that of collusion capitalism with the prianism. That is what the national opinocracy defends tooth and nail: the juicy and undue and even illegal profits. Of course, they bypass them in a cynical way and cover them with concepts such as freedom, initiative of individuals, signed contracts, clean energy, international treaties and other paraphernalia. It must be said, openly and as a curious fact, that the CFE has generated, in the last three years, at least, considerably more clean energy than the entire private initiative. Furthermore, it is imperative to denounce the appropriation that large groups of companies have made of the figure of self-supply and independent producers (PIE). They add up to their businesses, somewhat more than 70 percent of the total of the large user loads: of 77 thousand that make up this unfair parallel market. The names are widely known, Femsa, (Oxxo) Pegaso (Movistar), Walmart, Salinas, Alsea, Soriana, Farmacias del Ahorro and the BBVA bank. The latter also Spanish and with a history of transactions when they were (Vizcaya and Bilbao Banks) part of Basque families of high birth (Neguri).
Bringing up this past of the aforementioned companies, filled with privileges, is pertinent to understand and clarify the extensive and malicious campaign unleashed against the reform just proposed. The data that is being aired, however, is beginning to put realities in place. Facts and visions that are provided so that citizens have a precise idea of what is at stake. As is easy to see, political courage is required to bear the costs of limiting the excesses incurred by past administrations, in complicity with big capital. That, too, implies enduring the insults of opinioncrats who, with unprecedented pride, can siphon epithets from the President as a destroyer or with a disintegrated and paranoid judgment, as does the visionary courageous Silva-Herzog ( Reform, 11/1/21). Sustaining freedom of expression implies, as can be seen, accepting this type of verbal outburst rarely seen or heard. Problems inherent in the work to establish democracy with justice so longed for by Mexicans.
