Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) Director Manuel Bartlett denounced that the Iberdrola company had been allowed to loot the country by previous Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and National Action Party (PAN) governments.
Responding to Secretary of State for Iberoamerica Juan Fernández’s warning that Pedro Sánchez’s government “will respond very clearly” if Congress approves the reform, the head of the CFE said they will not stop the reform Defending national interests and Sovereignty.
In an interview with La Jornada, Bartlett stressed that both that official and his boss, Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares, appear unaware that Iberdrola and the other Spanish companies that generate energy in the country have acted illegally.
Through traps, tricks and other corruptions allowed by former presidents Vicente Fox, Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto, they have set up large companies at the expense of the Treasury, he criticized.
There could be lawsuits, including criminal ones, against Spanish companies, warned the director of the CFE, stressing that it is surprising that the Spanish government is defending multinational companies that have caused serious economic and social problems in their own country due to the very high rates they charge .
Do you expect a similar situation in Mexico? he asked himself, answering that they would not allow it and that through the reform they would try for the state to regain responsibility for the electrical system on which the security of the country depends welfare of the population.
Bartlett denied that the reform violated international treaties, Fernandez asserted.
“How can they defend investments based on corruption and the blatant violation of Mexican law, how can Fernández Trigo and Minister Albares demand legal certainty for their multinationals?” he asked.
It is not possible, he said, that they ignore the information that President López Obrador has published about all the anomalies, the fact that they do not pay for the transmission of electricity, nor for the necessary support, since there is no air or sun the whole time. , with which their companies operate, and the CFE must jump in immediately and take on the millionaire expenses.
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