Hermosillo, Son. “Also let it be known, with the electrical reform, those from Iberdrola are the ones doing the lobby against, along with their partners or accomplices in Mexico,” accused President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
The president’s expression was in the middle of a clarification of what was said last Wednesday, when he spoke of the relevance of giving time, of pausing the relationship between Mexico and Spain, without this meaning a change in diplomacy or in the political relationship with his counterpart.
The accusation, he reiterated, is due to the abuses committed by Spanish companies that have affected the people of Mexico.
It is about “the juicy deals they did for influence, for leadership agreements of politicians from Spain and politicians from Mexico in the six-year terms of Fox, Calderón and Peña Nieto, the attitude or behavior of the Repsol company of Spain in Mexico, what it cost us, is a matter of doing the analysis”, he told the press during the conference held in Hermosillo.
He mentioned that in his books he has exposed in detail the operations of these and other companies, such as the also Spanish OHL, on the cost for the treasury of the concessions and subsidies, but above all the way in which the consortiums became the favorites of the government in turn.
He not only spoke of what Mexico has lost, “but the offense that a company that benefits from electricity supply contracts takes the Secretary of Energy of Mexico to work and takes as an employee the former president of Mexico Felipe Calderon. That is an offense to our people.”
Therefore, the president stressed that the aforementioned pause is not a break; On the contrary, he highlighted the persistence of commercial, social, cultural and tourist ties between both peoples.
“Is there no diplomatic consequence?” –She asked him.
-Nothing, just to say: stealing is not allowed, we are not a land of conquest and do not confuse the Spanish people, whom we respect and admire so much, with these companies and with their highest-level political protectors, that’s all.
In that sense, he ruled out communication problems between the respective foreign ministries.
“What better communication than what I am saying? What, they don’t know? Conservative internationalists, experts in foreign policy say what is that to pause. Didn’t you get it? Of course, it is: let’s see, let’s give it time. It is convenient for us, the peoples, the governments, to understand that there is a new reality, that there has been a change in Mexico. I can no longer send them a telegram because that is already obsolete, but tell them: not anymore.”
He recounted again when in a meeting with the chairman of Iberdrola’s board of directors, the latter behaved “with a disrespectful leading role and I had to tell him: ‘Listen, you have offended us.’ I think that there, in Spain, it has a lot of influence, because there the price of electricity goes up and up, and they are the ones who control it, without the government being able to do anything. And that is the model they want for Mexico or they were going there, because they were allowed, with exceptional treatment, like the one Iberdrola received from the Calderón government.”
(With information from Fabiola Martínez)