As was thought, the blessed Open Parliament is an exercise in futility, not only because of the flood of rhetoric, but because it begins to look like one of those extravagances of Congress that the Palace dislikes so much.
Waste, because the mistake made by those who believed that the Government would start a political dialogue on the Electricity Reform and that they could adjust it is confirmed.
In the Treasury Room, yesterday, January 18, President López Obrador proclaimed; “No half measures. It is time for definitions, to know who supports the CFE and who is in favor of maintaining the privileges of private companies”. Doubts?
Education, weapon against inequality
Time will tell if the distribution of resources from the social programs of the López Obrador government alleviated ancestral poverty. If not, at least they have already shown a route that could vary, but they will hardly be able to suppress future rulers.
The same cannot be said of inequality, since the effects of this also ancestral ballast can only be alleviated and corrected with the golden bullet of education, education of opportunities, yes, but also of rigorous excellence.
Ideological cobwebs hide the goal. They pretend not to know that even the most modest economic growth requires an excellent education. Thus, Mexican society, like half a century ago, will be a society of opportunities for all, once again.
Will there be a bilateral energy policy?
Tomorrow, the Secretary of Energy of the United States, Mrs. Jennifer Granholm, will be at the National Palace to meet with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, as announced by the Chief Executive last Monday.
As Eduardo Ruiz Healy says, it is said, rumored and gossiped that the issue will be the electrical reform initiative and the possible affectation of the interests of North American companies. Perhaps, but there are other issues.
One of the objectives of the White House is to strengthen the national electric power transmission and distribution network and it is possible, only possible, that in this field there will be some collaboration for a certain bilateral integration. Oh the imagination.
SWIRL NOTES
The national leader of the PRI, Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, should not be so angry with former Sonora governor Claudia Pavlovich and with his countryman who temporarily replaced him in the folksy governorship. Perhaps they made “an offer that they could not refuse”… As expected, the Banamex issue has its uses, because in the absence of results, the head of the FIU Pablo Gómez Álvarez was reminded that he is an economist and they sent him to criticize ” to the banking oligopoly” in spaces of the financial press, a front not covered before… Three years after the explosion of a clandestine tap in the Pemex gasoline pipeline in Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, which killed more than 130 people, the activity of the huachicol continues, but controlled today by organized crime gangs… What things! The former owner of Sedatu Rosario Robles has Covid 19… Life gives you surprises. Roberta Metsola, legislator from Malta and not in favor of abortion was elected president of the European Parliament… A piece of universal wisdom from Haruki Murakami: “What has already happened is like a plate broken into a thousand pieces. No matter how hard you try, you will no longer be able to return it to its original state”…
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