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>> Andrés Manuel López Obrador
How to explain that Mexico, being a rich country
in natural resources and hardworking people, is sinking?
Why is this happening?
Because of the programs applied during the past 26-27 years.
For example, Salinas and Fox ammended the Constitution and its laws
concessioning almost 62 million acres of the national territory
to international mining companies.
Mexico has almost 500 million acres, that means that Salinas and Fox
concessioned 12% of the national territory.
This amount is equivalent to the extension of the State of Chihuahua,
which is the biggest Mexican State, with almost 62 million acres.
What benefits bring all these companies to the Mexican people?
To you who are watching, you who are listening.
What are the benefits? Nothing.
They pollute the environment, looting gold, silver, copper.
paying miserable salaries to the workers.
Do you know how much taxes they pay? $2.02 pesos per acre per year.
The same thing happens within the electricity industry.
In 1992, using a secondary law, Salinas gave concessions
to international companies in order to generate electricity in our country.
Why this violates the Constitution? Because the Constitution establishes
that only the Nation can generate and distribute electricity.
Currently 40% of the electricity we consume is bought by the Federal Electricity Comission (CFE)
from foreign companies, Spaniards overall.
We are talking about a total invoicing, meaning the CFE income generated
by the rates charged to us, for about $280 billion pesos.
But approximately 40% of this amount is related to foreign companies,
which makes it a very profitable business.
Since this privatization plan was started, investing in power stations stop.
Power production capacity was reduced in hydroelectric dams
such as Chicoacen, La Angostura, Mal Paso and Peñitas,
and all easiness to foreign companies to get established was given.
How does all this affect you? You may wonder "why should I care?"
Well, we have to pay more for electricity compared with other places around the globe.
We pay more for the electricity in Mexico than in the United States.
The exact same thing happens in the oil industry.
It's strange, suspicious, that in 28-29 years not a single oil refinery's been constructed in the country.
We sell crude oil and we buy gasolines. We buy 40% of the gasolines we consume.
Who is behind the gasoline importation business? Because this is the way we have to look at the situation.
We have to keep an eye on the money, because at the end these people are greedy, insatiable.
These matters receive no attention nor they are debated in traditional mass media (tv, newspapers, radio).
Did you know that 12% of the national territory
was given to foreign companies for mining exploitation?
Did you know it?
Did you know that 40% of the electricity we consume is bought to foreign companies?
That we pay more for power than in the United States?
Did you know we buy 40% of the gasolines we use in the country?
and that there must exist a big business behind the gasolines importation scheme?
And there is no information. It's really sad what happens. It's very irracional what they have done.
That's why we have to look forward a change and there is no other way but defeating this oligarchy
in pacific ways, within the legal frame in order to establish a real democracy in Mexico
to take care of our natural ressources, to have sustainable exploitation of the same and
provide a fair distribution of wealth. This is why we talk about the "Rescuing of the State".
We have to fight to change things.
Not only to be angry or be thinking that there is no escape, no exits.
There is an exit: choices exist, alternatives exist. We have to save our country.
We have to bring Mexico a step forward.