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Related: About this forumSOS, HRC, Pushed Privatization of Mexico's PEMEX (Petroleos Mexicanos); Her Lobbist Friends Benefite
WikiLeaks: Hillary Clinton Pushed Mexico's Oil Privatization
Clinton's team pushed to quietly help the Mexican government pass the energy reform.
While serving as U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton led a series of actions to promote the privatization of Mexico's energy industry, documents revealed by Wikileaks show.
According to the website DesMog, the U.S. democratic presidential hopeful and her staff at the State Department were actively promoting the privatization of Mexicos oil industry after then-Mexican President Felipe Calderon began speaking about possible reforms in 2008.
The controversial energy reform was passed by current President Enrique Peña Nieto in 2014.
The country's hydrocarbons have been constitutionally managed by the state-owned company, Pemex since 1938, after the Mexican oil expropriation.
The website identifies three U.S. officials as being key in this process of pushing for an opening of Mexicos energy sector:
David Goldwyn, the first U.S. International Energy Coordinator who was named by Clinton in 2009; Carlos Pascual, Goldwyn's successor and former U.S. ambassador to Mexico; as well as Neil Brown, a former top-level staffer for Senator Richard Lugar.
Mexico officials remain extremely sensitive about any public especially US comments regarding energy reform and production, reads a February 2010 cable from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, prior to a visit to the country by Goldwyn.
We should retain the (U.S. government's) long-standing policy of not commenting publicly on these issues while quietly offering to provide assistance in areas of interest to the (Mexican government).
Clinton's former collaborators now work in the private sector and stand to gain financially from the energy reforms they helped create, DesMog said.
This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address:
"http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Wikileaks-Hilary-Clinton-Pushed-Mexicos-Oil-Privatization-20150810-0011.html". If you intend to use it, please cite the source and provide a link to the original article. www.teleSURtv.net/english
Clinton's team pushed to quietly help the Mexican government pass the energy reform.
While serving as U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton led a series of actions to promote the privatization of Mexico's energy industry, documents revealed by Wikileaks show.
According to the website DesMog, the U.S. democratic presidential hopeful and her staff at the State Department were actively promoting the privatization of Mexicos oil industry after then-Mexican President Felipe Calderon began speaking about possible reforms in 2008.
The controversial energy reform was passed by current President Enrique Peña Nieto in 2014.
The country's hydrocarbons have been constitutionally managed by the state-owned company, Pemex since 1938, after the Mexican oil expropriation.
The website identifies three U.S. officials as being key in this process of pushing for an opening of Mexicos energy sector:
David Goldwyn, the first U.S. International Energy Coordinator who was named by Clinton in 2009; Carlos Pascual, Goldwyn's successor and former U.S. ambassador to Mexico; as well as Neil Brown, a former top-level staffer for Senator Richard Lugar.
Mexico officials remain extremely sensitive about any public especially US comments regarding energy reform and production, reads a February 2010 cable from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, prior to a visit to the country by Goldwyn.
We should retain the (U.S. government's) long-standing policy of not commenting publicly on these issues while quietly offering to provide assistance in areas of interest to the (Mexican government).
Clinton's former collaborators now work in the private sector and stand to gain financially from the energy reforms they helped create, DesMog said.
This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address:
"http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Wikileaks-Hilary-Clinton-Pushed-Mexicos-Oil-Privatization-20150810-0011.html". If you intend to use it, please cite the source and provide a link to the original article. www.teleSURtv.net/english
for the purposes of companies as the ExxonMobil, Chevron, British Petroleum, the American Petroleum Institute and independent United States oil producers (According to DeSmong). - See more at: http://oronegro.mx/2015/08/22/hillary-pascual-pena-traicion-a-mexico/?lang=en#sthash.GfIaj88e.dpuf
http://desmogblog.com/2015/08/07/hillary-clinton-state-department-emails-mexico-energy-reform-revolving-door
http://oronegro.mx/2015/08/22/hillary-pascual-pena-traicion-a-mexico/?lang=en
New records obtained by DeSmog shed further light on the role the U.S.government has played to help implement the privatization of Mexicos oil and gas industry, opening it up to international firms beyond state-owned company PEMEX (Petroleos Mexicanos).
The records also call into question the claim made by Mexicos Energy Secretary, Pedro Joaquín Coldwell, that the privatization policy was 100 percent made in Mexico.
As laid out in an August 7 article on DeSmog US, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's State Department played a behind-the-scenes but central role in ushering in constitutional reforms in Mexico that opened up the country to international oil and gas companies. It is a policy set to open up the country to more deepwater offshore drilling on the Mexico-side of the Gulf of Mexico, fracking on the Mexico-side of the Eagle Ford Shale and help flood the country's energy grid with US fracked gas........
The article also explains that those who made the policy possible particular a trio of David Goldwyn, Neil Brown and Carlos Pascual passed through the revolving door and now they or the entities they work for profit from those same policies.
David Goldwyn and Hillary Clinton are also featured in another LittleSis oligrapher titled, "How Hillary Clinton and David Goldwyn sold fracking." Wikileaks cables, central to telling that other story, also played a role in the Mexico one as did emails obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the latter.....
http://desmogblog.com/2015/08/07/hillary-clinton-state-department-emails-mexico-energy-reform-revolving-door
Goldwyn works of-counsel for Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, a firm that helped the Enterprise Product Partners become the first company to get a permit to export processed oil condensate from the U.S. Department of Commerce in June 2014. In a biography appearing at the end of a September 2014 presentation he delivered to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Sutherland partner Jacob Dweck disclosed he is presently assisting clients looking to export crude oil as part of an exchange or swap.
It's hard to over-state the significance of PEMEX to Mexico. It's a sacred part of Mexico's national heritage that was heinously violated and exploited by the US in the early 20th Century.
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SOS, HRC, Pushed Privatization of Mexico's PEMEX (Petroleos Mexicanos); Her Lobbist Friends Benefite (Original Post)
amborin
Mar 2016
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think
(11,641 posts)1. The list just keeps growing....
It's mind boggling
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)3. Get ready for the link bashing
Good post BTW!
Mika
(17,751 posts)4. Yep. GRca is a ct site.
Had some of my threads shitcanned on DU for GRca links.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)5. K&R and thanks for your great posts, Amborin.
amborin
(16,631 posts)6. thanks, Tierra_y_Libertad!