The day - Lithium does not negotiate on electric reform: AMLO

Chihuahua, Chih.President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that yesterday's meeting with businessmen talked about the way to avoid “abuse” regarding the consumption of electricity, and no longer benefit a few, that ambition does not predominate, greed, alienation.

However, the president made it clear that while an "arrangement" will be sought around the electricity industry, lithium does not enter this negotiation because the objective is to leave the State control of this natural resource.

He told entrepreneurs that during the three years he has been in the presidency, he has dedicated himself to straightening entters and fighting influence peddling.

"People who suddenly dedicated themselves to the bakery, to make bread, and became oil entrepreneurs or dedicated themselves to the electricity industry, nothing more because they had grips, they had influence, but that fortunately it ended," he warned.

In a broad explanation, the president pointed out some aspects of the meeting with some of the most wealthy people in the country, of the Mexican Business Council, in a private meeting that lasted just over two hours.

“We talk about that, how to look for an arrangement, because it turnsThere cannot be a change of rules, there can be no signal change because then there is no confidence. '

"Yes, those were the rules and it is legal because they were the owners of the country and made the laws tailored to their interests, they even bought legislators to carry out their reforms," he said.

In the morning press conference held in this capital, López Obrador commented that in Thursday's food with members of the Mexican Business Council, in which some of the most wealthy businessmen in the country participate, there was talk with great clarity, frankness and respect and respect.

“We talked about the issue of the electricity industry and I told them that it was abused in other times and nothing else was thought about the private business, that a company went well, even if the country went wrong, I set the example of the gas pipelines, how they did that juicy business against national interest, cheated that they were going to build 12 thermoelectric plants and that they needed gas to supply those thermoelectric plants. ”

Then, he added, they did not do thermoelectricas but they did buy the gas at very high prices for the benefit of the companies, they made their August.

The president stressed that in that issue a negotiation was already made, the price that had been agreed in the gas comparison was reduced, although 40 percent gas persists anyway that is being paid without being used, because it was boughtSo much, hence you have to resell at low prices in Texas, in order to reduce losses.

"These entrepreneurs or traffickers of influence because they did not think that that way because the public hacienda is damaged and in the end if the CFE breaks, it affects all Mexicans, but greed is a lot, it is a kind of alienation."

In that context, when talking about ambition and hatreds that have predominated for centuries, the president reported:

“Here they cut the head of Cura Hidalgo, an extraordinary man who came to take refuge to the north because he came to the United States.

Before the United States had a political system where freedoms were guaranteed, a judicial system that guaranteed the right to defense of people, so that is why all the great leaders, the heroes of our homeland, tried to come to the north, Hidalgo, Juarez, JuarezHe spent two years in Chihuahua, for the same. ”

“And Madero, the same.He entered through Juarez to face the Porfirist military;The Magón Flores were in the north because in the time of Porfirio Díaz there were no courts, it was the law escape ‘the hot mátals’.In the United States they hoped that a judge could have his freedom.

Hidalgo said that "you, the oligarchs, your only God is money."That is why they exhibited his head in the main square of Guanajuato 10 years as a lesson to the father of our country. ”

Then, he lamented, (s) "ambition."

Yesterday we talked about that, the president added, and in the case of the electricity industry, the same.

“How is it possible that a company, a large economic and financial corporation pays less light, proportionally, of what a home, a popular class or average class consumer pays, while a large commercial chain pays less light than what it paysA grocery store in a town, in a colony that have to turn off their refrigerators while the day and night corporations maintain their shopping centers as if it were? ”He criticized.

Lithium

“Then, we are going to reach an agreement, we are going to dialogue, and the dialogue is already being carried out, but there are things in which we are not going to yield, at once I advance it, for example, what has to do with thedomain of the nation over lithium.

“That strategic mineral must be from the nation, it cannot be privatized, because there has not been talk of that, there has only been talk of the electrical industry, but I know what matters a lot to those who dedicate themselves to the traffic of influence is whatof lithium.

"And we care very much because that is what allows the country to develop independently and ensure independence for the benefit of new generations," he said.

In sum, said López Obrador, “the agreement was reached that the dialogue will continue, but that there must be a review to find the balances.

“They are raised very clearly, I told them that I have been straightening entertainment of this of the gas pipelines, the prisoners, the purchase of medicine, another large transa, 100 billion pesos bought from medicine 10 companies linkedTo power, we are now reviewing contracts. ”

In the concessions that gave last minute for the maintenance of roads and things like the contracts they gave for oil extraction: 110 Do you know how many are working or have investment?Two.

The famous rounds to explore served for speculation;Many of those who received the concessions, families from Salinas de Gortari, already sold, made their August, obtained their August, already sold their shares to the investment funds.No longer, even with this level of reality and frankness, it was a very important meeting because, it mustIt will always have our support, but there are others who are influence traffickers, white -collar criminals, but they are not all entrepreneurs, it is a minorinfluences, he added.