By Mario Gutierrez Vega
Two officials from Pemex Exploration and Production who endorsed a contract with the company Baker Hughes in August 2019, they also favored, two months later, Felipa Obrador Olan, first cousin of the president of Mexico.
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Joel Pablo Vera AguilarContracting Manager for Production, and Mark Torres Fuentesmanager of the Cantarell Production Asset, authorized the contract from 85 million dollars from Pemex with Baker Hughes. They did it the same month that the eldest son of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador began to occupy Houston the Mansion from Keith Schillinga senior executive at the oil company, who confirmed that information last week.
On August 19, 2019, Francisco Chavela Gomezlegal representative of Baker Hughes de MéxicoY Roberto Patlán Esponda, representative of Pemex Exploration and Production, signed alongside Vera Aguilar and Torres Fuentes. The signing of the latter was fundamental because both were in charge of reviewing the technical and administrative aspects of the contract 645019825.
Weeks later, on October 22, Torres Fuentes and Vera Aguilar -as legal representative of Pemex Exploration and Production- gave their approval for Litoral Industrial Laboratories, owned by the president’s first cousin, together with two other companies, to obtain a contract for 199 million pesos to inject chemical products into oil wells.
The contract 648819810 of Pemex Exploration and Production It was generous for the winners of the contest, since it contemplated an expiration term until December 31, 2022.
Torres Fuentes and Vera Aguilar technically and legally endorsed the joint proposal in which they participated Litoral Industrial Laboratoriesdespite the fact that the latter did not present the document “Declaration of ties of individuals”, where they had to report their personal or family relationships with officials, including the Republic President.
Pemex became aware of this irregularity and terminated the contract until December 10, 2020, seven days after Latinus will publish that Philip Obrador had received in this administration contracts for more than 365 million pesos of Pemex and four federal agencies.
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After the revelation of LatinusPemex reported that Alejandro Flores Torres, contracting manager of the supply coordination for Pemex Exploration and Production, had been removed from his position and that he had under investigation Claudia Angelica Velarde Torresfrom the legal area, Jose de Jesus Corrales Arroniz, of the technical area of Pemex Exploration and Production, to determine their degree of responsibility in the irregular delivery of contracts to Philip Obrador.
But nevertheless, Pemex he never singled out Torres Fuentes and Vera Aguilar in his communications or put them under investigation. Both accepted a contract in which the documentation was incomplete and two months earlier they endorsed the signing of a new contract for Baker Hughesone of the most important service providers of Petróleos Mexicanos.
Only in 2020, Baker Hughes received payments for more than 6 billion pesos from Pemex Exploration and Production, which placed the transnational in the fifth company with the most money received.
In 2019 and 2020 the senior executive of Baker Hughes he rented his house to Jose Ramon Lopez Beltran, eldest son of President Andrés Manuel López Obradoralready your daughter-in-lawas published Latinus and Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity in Loret Chapter 69.
This post has provoked various questions about the operation and the contracts obtained by Baker Hughes with Pemex in the current administration.