The oil company denied an application for transparency road alleging that the payment vouchers of the Cuban regime are a private matter.
Lima, Peru – Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) recently refused to respond a newspaper’s request The Universal that requested the vouchers that the Cuban regime would havepaid to Mexico for the shipments of Petróleodesde 2023.
A report of the aforementioned media published the Gasolinas well -being replica, SA de CV, a Pemex subsidiary company.
“In accordance with article 63 of the Law of the Public Company of the State, Petróleos Mexicanos, is constituted as a private commercial law and does not constitute a parastatal entity, so it cannot be considered obligatory subject in terms of transparency,” says the company.
Likewise, the company was shielded in terms of article 117 of the State Public Company Law, Petróleos Mexicanos, to deny the application for transparency.
In contrast, the director of Mexican Transparency, Eduardo Bohorquez, warned that Pemex’s argument contravenes the content of the constitutional article 6.
In accordance with the official, the obliged subjects must preserve their documents in administrative files and will publish, through the available electronic means, the complete and updated information on the exercise of public resources and the indicators that allow account to account for the fulfillment of their objectives and the results obtained.
“It is not because of its parastatal or private company that the information must be delivered, but because the corporate name receives or exercises public resources,” he said.
As transcended this week, Pemex raised the value of its hydrocarbons exports to Cuba in the first half of 2025, with an average of 17,900 barrels per day (BD) of crude oil sent in that period, according to its quarterly report presented to the United States Stock Exchange and Securities Commission (SEC), quoted by Industry & Energy Magazine.
In parallel, Azteca TV He informed – with the base in the Ministry of Energy (Sener) – that this flow reached a value of 289 million dollars and confirmed the growth of 6%.
According to Pemex’s report before the SEC, the increase in value is explained by a advance of 2.8% in the total volume dispatched to the island, which went from 17,400 BD in the first half of 2024 to 17,900 BD in the same period of 2025. The most It corresponded to crude oil, while derivatives (gasoline and diesel) were reduced from 1,800 to 1,700 BD interannuals in the reference period.
The report also limits the weight of Cuba in the Pemex foreign trade set: shipments to the island represented 3.3% of the total oil exports of the oil company and 1.8% of its exports of oil products in the semester.
For its part, Azteca TV —It’s information from Sener – placed the value of exports by 289 million dollars and stressed that the increase “reflects a greater demand.” Together, public data coincide in the operating pattern of the semester: more raw, less derivatives, and a net balance of greater billing towards Cuba, with well -being gasoline as a Pemex operational vehicle.
