By John Saxe - Fernández
Americas Program Original Translation
Diego Valadés, of the Institute of Legal Research of the
UNAM, warned the Senate about the risk involved in opening Pemex when Mexico is
part of NAFTA and could be forced to give preferential contracts to companies (U.S.),
or risk involvement in an international controversy if they refuse. The matter
takes on unusual importance and urgency if we consider that since October 2012
Mexico has been negotiating their participation in the Trans-Pacifc Partnership Agreement
(TPP) which, according to leaked documents, grants rights and privileges to
corporations in investment, land, natural resources, and industries in order to
disable state enterprises, with the intention to reverse the vast and dynamic geo-economic
and political projection of the Chinese state sector.
The notion of renegotiating the Mexico’s petro-electric
clause in NAFTA protected by Articles 27 and 28 of the Constitution, had been
placed in Peña Nieto’s agenda by John D. Negroponte ( JDN ), U.S. ambassador
during the negotiation of NAFTA and former director of the National
Intelligence Council , governing body of imperial espionage . In October 2010
Negroponte said from Toluca that it was time to seek new ways of working
through the negotiation of a second phase (NAFTA) and that the... delicate
matter ... needed to be put on the table. He was referring to the energy sector,
a key card in the presidential succession processes for plundering the nation.
EPN came to Los Pinos at the culmination of the intentional weakening of Pemex started in 1983, so that by the end of 2011 and to the delight of the White House
and the greats (ExxonMobil, Chevron, etc.) during their U.S. tour, offered to
open the energy sector, endorsing U.S. business design and national security.
