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"The Child God deeded a stable / and the oil springs of the devil." Ramón López Velarde

Pemex could be proud of Mexicans. It is the largest company in our country and the fourth producer of crude oil in the world. It is also the entity that operates the most valuable resource that we have the Mexican oil.

However, Pemex is an example of everything wrong with our country. It is the only oil company in the world that loses money largely the product of an irrational tax treatment by the state that takes away more in taxes than it earns. The parastatal also suffers from an excess of staff and a maze of bureaucracy.

not surprising that the production of crude oil from Pemex has declined in recent years, need to import gas, gasoline, oil and petrochemicals, its technological level is low especially now facing the challenge of extracting oil from unconventional sources as the deepwater Gulf of Mexico or rocky areas Chicontepec. The problem is not the technical or Pemex workers but of the structure that the Government has imposed on the industry Mexican oil. Pemex is not only a monopoly, a monopoly is stifling.

In other countries citizens are owners of the hydrocarbons, as in Mexico, but the appeal is not delivered to bureaucratic monopolies.

In Canada, the inhabitants of each province are owned oil and gas, but there is a state enterprise that operates exclusively. Provincial governments operating concession areas and receives royalties from hydrocarbons, thereby ensuring an income for citizens without risking money on a highly specialized activity.

In Norway, Statoil, a state enterprise, produces oil and production dealers other firms, but also saves oil revenues in a pension fund for Norwegian citizens of today and the future rather than spending it at the present.

In Brazil, Petrobras, which began as a poor imitation of Pemex, enjoyed a progressive reform in the 90's, which allowed private investment in exploration and exploitation, and opened the door to private capital in the company. So the company, which originally was dedicated to import crude oil and gasoline, is now a leading exporter of oil and gasoline, as well as one of the world's leading specialists in oil exploration and drilling in deep water.

Pemex could also be pride of Mexicans, but it is not. Has been a burden than a boost to investment and productivity. Takes two years to start making plans for a refinery in Tula, Hidalgo, which we know will lose money as the rest of Pemex Refining.

Mexico is suffering an acute case of evil, or syndrome, Dutch. The facility to export a high-priced natural resource generates a complacency that ultimately impoverish a country. In Mexico worsen this disease by prohibiting private investment in areas such as the refining of gasoline or by using oil revenues as an excuse to avoid a real fiscal reform.

The only achievement of the alleged nationalist politics in hydrocarbons has been to deprive the Mexicans of hundreds of billions of dollars in oil wealth . This theft has been particularly terrible because for millions of Mexicans living in extreme poverty, the only real wealth is its involvement in oil wealth. Mexican politicians have finish the passage of time without creating better opportunities for the poor. Heritage


Mexico has 14 billion barrels of proven reserves of hydrocarbons. A $ 90 per barrel, this equdivale 1 trillion 260 billion dollars. Each of the 112 million Mexicans in the country so we have $ 11.250 in wealth in the ground. For the poorest, this is their only patrimony. What a shame that politicians have it right. Sergio Sarmiento


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Dutch Tax and the 10 drinkers

Suppose that everyday 10 men meet in a bar chatting and drinking beer . The total count of ten men is $ 100.
If they should pay the account in proportion to taxes paid in the company of a country, that would be something like, according to the scale of wealth and income of each: The first 4 men (the poorest) paid nothing. The 5 th pay $ 1. The 6 th pay $ 3. The 7 th pay $ 7. The 8 th pay $ 12. The 9 th pay $ 18. The 10 th (the richest) paid $ 59.
So that's what they decided they would henceforth, all having fun, and were in accordance with the agreement between them. Until one day, the owner of the bar they got into a problem: "Since you are such good customers," he said, "I will reduce the cost of their beers a day at $ 20. The drinks now cost $ 80."
The group did, however, continue to pay the account in the same proportion as they did before, so that the first four continued to drink for free. The cuts were not concerned at all.

But what about the other six drinkers, those who actually pay the bill? How should divide the $ 20 windfall so that everyone gets a fair share? Estimated that $ 20 divided by 6 was $ 3.33. But if you subtract that portion of each, then 5 and 6 would be charging for drinking man, as the 5 th paid before $ 1 and 6 º $ 3.
Then the bartender suggested it would be fair to reduce each account for approximately the same proportion, and proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay: The 5 th drinker, as well as the top four would pay nothing (100% savings). The 6 th pay now $ 2 instead of $ 3. (You save 33%) The 7th would pay $ 5 instead of $ 7. (You save 28%). The 8th would pay $ 9 instead of $ 12. (You save 25%). The 9th would pay $ 14 instead of $ 18. (You save 22%). The 10 th would pay $ 49 instead of $ 59 (you save 16%). Each of the six payers was now in a better situation than before. And the first four drinkers continue to drink free, and a fifth well.

But once outside the bar, began to compare their savings. "I only got a weight of $ 20 saved, "said the 6 th man. He pointed to the 10 th drinker and said," But he got $ 10! "" That's right, "said the 5 th man." I only saved $ 1. It's unfair that he got ten times more than me. "" Truth! "Exclaimed the 7 th man." Why did he get $ 10 back when I got just $ 2? The rich always get the greatest benefits! "" Wait! "Yelled the first four at once." We have not received anything. The system exploits the poor! "
The nine men surrounded the 10 and beat him.

The next night the 10th man did not show to drink, as it was to drink a more friendly environment, so the nine sat down and drank their beers without him. But when the bill they discovered something disturbing: Among them, not raise the money to pay even HALF of the bill.
For those who understand, no explanation is necessary. For those who did not understand, no explanation.

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That happens in any society where taxes are increased to more rich, who generate jobs through business. Just take their money and their investments elsewhere. And the poor get poorer. Robbing the rich to give to the poor in the long run does not end poverty. It is best to encourage the rich to invest their money in job creation, business creation, and that if, ultimately, reduce poverty.

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FREE CUBA INC "? Is there narco

During the 60's the label "Made in Japan" was synonymous with poor quality of the product carrier. The Japanese after World War II, according to the rehabilitation plan is devoted to flood the world with replicas manufactures and markets rode, but with the attraction of being infinitely cheaper. It was the beginning of the second phase of a story that already in the 80s became the admiration of the international community. Mc Arthur

be the architect of a new country that embraced democracy and free markets, converging and the history of the phoenix from the second half of the twentieth century. Since Japan, like Mexico, a country which had not allowed the development of a healthy civil society, was understandable at the beginning of a special state participation in order to accelerate the development required by the shattered country. It was when his government, through an aggressive activism, develop the concept of Japan Inc.

For the start of the decade of the 80 Japanese experiment had not only proven effective, threatened to snatch the leadership to the U.S. as the world's largest economy. Arise and the famous revisionist, a group of intellectuals warned that if the U.S. did not adopt the model Japan Inc, were doomed to be displaced by the Nipponese. However, few realized that the island had never left the state comptroller that role, and state capitalism showed fatigue always comes.

When Reagan in the United States dismantled the Keynesian building the choking, the Japanese invaded the world markets not only products, the U.S. invaded them symbols acquiring assets such as buildings in New York, banks, golf courses, movie companies and, above all, were the owners of U.S. government bonds major the globe. Japanese banks were already the largest in the world and its financial markets with fast approaching the levels of Wall Street. However, at the beginning of the 90s, the bubble that few economists found, exploded into a severe recession which has not yet replaced.

was such a disappointment to this model that was clever observers direct their gaze to other Eastern country, silently, cook another miracle: China. Having profited from Japan's experience and especially Russia, China began a remarkable transformation welcoming the markets and to measure accurately, moved to the State as the major economic czar with the ingenious creation of its visionary leader: A country with two systems.

Chinese Miracle should emerge and become the big story of the century. But in the land of excuses, now the Mexican authorities are blaming China for our economic woes. The list is long but ranging from smuggling, illegal labor, the malicious manipulation of the yuan, to Confucius spells against humanity. In the U.S. blames China for job losses in the manufacturing industry. The reality is that due to increased manufacturing productivity, at present, as a percentage of GDP are higher than 30 years ago.

In the U.S., as well as the late nineteenth century the use of agriculture to industry was moving, the economy imports the services of manufacturing. But in the case of Mexico, the reality is different. While aggressively release Chinese economy, we are still caught in the same red tape and greedy bureaucracy. China's coast is about twenty areas Hong Kong type economic freedom and wealth creation has been such that they can not delay the more into the country. Have already established the first free zone within the city of Chongqing on the banks of the Yangtze River, where a combined population of more than 300 million.

This liberating process has made China the world's second largest economy snatching the title from Japan. Chongjin is already the center of the largest international investment in China: A partnership between BPPLC, China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation.

If Mexico does not initiate an aggressive process of liberalization of its economy, we are doomed to lose another historic opportunity and, more sadly, lost another century immersed in misery. Milton Friedman advised him twenty years ago: "The example of Mexico to follow the U.S. should not, must be Hong Kong." But we are still immersed in the apparatus and bureaucracy while China as a vacuum draws the bulk of international investment and consoled us complaining of abusive tactics and asking for protection.

"Throughout the fifties, Cuba ranked second in per capita income in Latin America and ahead of Italy and Spain more than doubled. Despite its small geography, with only 6 million inhabitants, in 1958 occupied position 29 among the world's largest economies.

Within a short time Mexico will face another challenge, and while not of such magnitude, it will be lethal for some activities of our economy, Cuba. The Cubans are just waiting for Fidel's death correct this historical error that made them lose half a century mired in misery. But the Cubans have a fierce army of true capitalists formed off the coast of Florida in a combat environment, risk and independence. An army that has accumulated financial capital - own several banks in the U.S. "But above all, human capital. Cuba also has a history of strong civil society formed in the years of American occupation.

One of the activities that will suffer when they emerge Cuba abandoning socialism, agriculture Sonora and Sinaloa. We will then witness the "Bacardi Produce Corporation" supply the market of the U.S. with great advantages over Mexican farmers: Capital of exile abundant, aggressive and available, free markets, a legal framework for freedom and security, lower costs and a new culture the Cuban island infected by the new generation libertarian in Florida, ready to embrace the landing with his hunger for freedom. Guantanamo, the first free city of Cuba, suck as a huge funnel all the maquiladoras in northern Mexico suffering from the extortions of the drug and bureaucrats.

when the plan will be prepared by the influential Cuban American National Foundation is deployed and run, in speaking of Carlos Alberto Montaner and Lincoln Diaz-Balart as a possible president of the Cuba Libre. We and the first Latin country libertarian image of Hong Kong, Dubai or Singapore, and the second developed, rich and prosperous in the hand with Chile. REFLECTIONS

LIBERTARIAN
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yesterday struggled to twitter with a young (I guess no more than 22 years as a law student) on liberalism. He stated that since 1980, in Mexico we had neoliberal governments, and the extreme right. If you really have economic liberalism in Mexico since the 80's, our country and would be an economic powerhouse. At the same time, China emerged from the depths of the 3rd world to be the 2nd world economy and, soon, be the first. This young man spoke of "success" of countries like Brazil and Chile left. And I just explained that if those countries have grown a lot lately is because they have liberalized its economy in contrast to Mexico.

And for such a button: Petrobras receives private investment, Brazilian and foreign, publicly traded, and Brazilians can buy and sell shares. If Mexico is doing the same with PEMEX and CFE our country would grow between 3 and 5 percentage points of GDP per year, for many years. In Mexico there is no free market. It is false that economic liberalism. What there is economic cronyism is something very different. Between state and private monopolies and oligopolies in many sectors, Mexicans are not in a completely free market. However, many young people who barely reached adulthood in the last decade did not know they come from an even worse scenario. In the 70's and 80's were worse than now. Unfortunately these young people do not realize and believe now in political chimeras, as López Obrador, with archaic speech, typical of the 70's, convinced an outdated nationalism should no longer have room in the 2nd decade of this century.

Sad scenario for 2012 to choose between a Peña Nieto remains the worst in 70 years of PRI dictatorship, with a young face and neatly combed, but that is just business as usual. Or a expriísta with ideology Echeverria, proposing yet more state involvement in the economy, as if it were that the cause of corruption, high bureaucracy, and delay in our Mexico.

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Dany Portales

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pacifists? Opacity = complicity

without bending Recognize the legitimacy of the struggle that the Mexican State waged against organized crime does not imply approving specific tactics used by the Government, nor of sharing your vision of the problem (roots, reasons, pads) and celebrate their achievements, or assumptions, or moderate criticism of their errors and omissions. What it should involve both politically and morally, is the social event of repudiation, unanimous, clear and unequivocal "against criminal groups as the perpetrators of violence . Unfortunately, this event has not been given citizenship. By contrast, a large sector of the opposition and the opinion has spread the opposite concept: we live "War of Calderon."

Failure national cohesion against organized crime strengthens it objectively. The case recalls, mutatis mutandis, the English pacifist during World War II. Facing the Nazi enemy-held George Orwell could not stand aside or be ambiguous. It seemed outrageous to many intellectuals debate from a comfortable neutrality while British soldiers fighting in the trenches. In Orwell was not interested in "moral pacifism"-ie, mere self-serving proclamation that peace is preferable to war. He knew that the other side there was no pacifist. Orwell

lashed particularly those who were cured in health "I'm as fascist as you, but ...". Hypocrites or naive, omitted always talk about what would happen the day after an eventual German victory. In some cases, pacifism was hiding something more sinister: a fascination with Hitler. Among the opponents of the controversial Orwell who argued in 1942, there were those who wish to go as far as a Nazi victory would have a "cathartic effect" on English literature and the arts. Therefore, to describe the social constellation or relativized denying the ugly truth (Nazi planes bombing London), Orwell coined the term "Fascifist."

In Mexico, the political purposes of the relativization are obvious: it is thought to identify clearly organized crime as the perpetrator of violence plays in favor of the PAN in 2012. I do not think so. In any case, the relativization (the mere fact of talking about "Calderon's War") has the effect of confusing the public by inducing the anachronistic belief that the President can do everything: starting the conflict, keep and kill it . As in 1942, something grim to mitigate the responsibility of the real culprits as soldiers, sailors and police are fighting every day against them. And since then, the mere utterance of good wishes (made in an indeterminate way, without a clear target) is, at best, an act of naivete and at worst irresponsible, because amalgam criminal violence with violence exercised, in principle, the Mexican state to defend society.

As in that circumstance, have we asked if there is peace among criminals? What if you take over the country? In the few statements that we have (given to organs of the opposition), there is no trace of remorse. And last but not least, has not missed a fascination with the big boss, the strong man. Before

organized crime escalate the conflict and destabilization take further steps as in Colombia (killing of a candidate, murder of ministers and legislators, etc.), The media, public universities, NGOs, opposition parties and bodies and civil society at large should converge at least on one point: national rejection, expressed in full and unequivocal organized crime . This event would not solve the problem, but get rid vagueness, morally isolate the murderers, would remove incentives for the political use of war and guide national attention to the best proposals in this sensitive area by 2012.

Mexicans can and should differ in what you want as you want, except in certain core values. The most precious, of course, is the defense of life, the right to live. Those who attack the criminals, not the Government. Against them there should be a strong social consensus. Enrique Krauze

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And you, for who you are? "The narco or Mexico?

The criminals are the real cause of violent weather that we have, we should not ignore.