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- From Zedillo to EPN, they let them benefit.
- Industries in various sectors of the country damage the environment and economy.
- Opposition approached the extreme right of the USA and Spain.
OMAR MONTALVO
CANTON GROUP
Mexico City. – In recent weeks, right-wing groups have called for mobilizations, which have included calls for foreign aid. The act has been rejected by the president Claudia Sheinbaumsince it is a regression in national sovereignty. As background, we have that in the neoliberal period of the governments of Ernesto Zedillo (1994-2000) a Enrique Pena Nieto (2012-2018), foreign companies benefited due to policies that allowed them to plunder national resources.
In the six-year term of Zedillo The Public Administration Modernization Program (PMAP) was implemented, where it was proposed that, in the face of the economic crisis of 1994, the privatization of national assets was viable. Under the idea of attracting investment, concessions were granted in airports, ports, railways, as well as for the use of energy and national waters. This last resource was used by foreign bottlers to receive concessions in the use of liquid to soft drinks companies such as Coca Cola. Additionally, in the mining sector, Zedillo’s government granted 11,524 concessions to companies such as the American Vulcan Materials.
Con Vicente Fox (2000-2006), mining activity increased with 15,753 concessions granted. In the energy sector, the then president increased the operations of the Spanish company Iberdrola, increasing its operations to the point that 25 percent of the energy supplied in the country came from the foreign firm.
The succession of the PAN with Felipe Calderon (2006-2012) followed the foreign profit route. During his government, 12,684 mining concessions were granted. He maintained the energy market for Iberdrola and at the end of his mandate he was a director of Avangrid, a subsidiary of the Spanish company.
Upon arrival of EPN The Energy Reform was the main instrument with which the exploitation and production of hydrocarbons in Mexico by the foreign private sector was opened. Companies such as Shell, Chevron, Renny Picot and Land Olakes entered. While, for electricity generation, it gave entry to CELs.
By 2018, with the entry of López Obrador into the presidency, the revocation of the foreign business sector by mining companies that did not compensate for ecological damage, the concentration of electrical energy in foreigners, as well as promoting the energy sovereignty of Pemex, began.
Faced with this line of government, right-wing leaders began to request foreign support. Among them, Ernesto Zedillo which in 2020 requested intervention from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In 2022, a PAN group led by Julen Rementería and Lilly Téllez, faced with the nationalization of assets, asked VOX, a Spanish far-right party, to “stop communism”; In addition, between 2022 and 2024, PAN members have attended the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the main movement that supports Donald Trump in the United States.
