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LOCAL RIPPLES AS THREE FORMER TAMPS. GOVS (AND RELATIONS) ARE UNDER COUNTRY ARREST
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The announcement by Mexico's PGR (Procuraduria General de la Republica) that it was restricting three former Tamaulipas governors and 43 other people related to their tenure in office to Mexican territory has sent ripples across the Rio Grande.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">At least one â€" Tomas Yarrington Rubalcava â€" was also a former Matamoros mayor with close ties to Brownsville and the Rio Grande Valley. His term ended in 2004. At last report, he was sighted in Texas and eluded the immigration restriction imposed upon him.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiD3u4nDWQwpSPHSBfm4-qjDTVIIJI4CRwT2wCG1qwNoa1Z7-AZgRJMrcATAADBai4BSZ2IcL8IUcCbQUUexucc35ZL6hyIpcdXnsuHbtDGUFE_LiUOeyi0ilQRMqbgdp1WwBOEFUjuns/s1600/eugenio.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" sda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiD3u4nDWQwpSPHSBfm4-qjDTVIIJI4CRwT2wCG1qwNoa1Z7-AZgRJMrcATAADBai4BSZ2IcL8IUcCbQUUexucc35ZL6hyIpcdXnsuHbtDGUFE_LiUOeyi0ilQRMqbgdp1WwBOEFUjuns/s200/eugenio.jpg" width="145" /></a>The other two Eugenio Hernandez Flores, who left office in 2010, and Manuel Cavazos, who left office in 1999, There have long been suspicions that state officials may have favored the once-dominant Gulf cartel, but that has never been proven. Hernandez was interviewed in Mexico City and was adamant he was not guilty of any wrongdoing.<br />Cavazos, interviewed in the Tamaulipas capital of Cuidad Victoria said they were the victims of a "dirty war" waged by the government for political reasons.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The news of the immigration prohibition against the three and 43 others including some journalists, camr to light after a directive was issued to customs and airports and these issued directives to implement the restrictions. It is unknown whether it includes the owners of newspapers, their employees or news room reporters.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">A Tamaulipas airport supervisor was fired for issuing a memo identifying those named in the PGR list.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxWHY-P_cDVACOjoqxMyazu3Rl97bJySQz8GwVRhivE_dG1Zr0VNmpwg7JTrfwhPwKfTdHKnKFp6AFQ8P6H3IJQ5AHkjHw19CvxHh9Uk5Guqd3SDqV8l2cVuDB88ZZ7ibLB3NQf9qIp6k/s1600/yema1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" sda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxWHY-P_cDVACOjoqxMyazu3Rl97bJySQz8GwVRhivE_dG1Zr0VNmpwg7JTrfwhPwKfTdHKnKFp6AFQ8P6H3IJQ5AHkjHw19CvxHh9Uk5Guqd3SDqV8l2cVuDB88ZZ7ibLB3NQf9qIp6k/s200/yema1.jpg" width="152" /></a>The PGR (the US equivalent of the Attorney General’s Office) has not said why the former officials are being investigated, but by necessity it would involve federal crimes. Organized crime, drug trafficking and money laundering are all considered federal offenses in Mexico.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The statement did not name the officials, but the three former Tamaulipas governors confirmed that they had been targeted in the probe. Hernandez, who left office in 2010, and denied any links to organized crime.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">And Yarrington, whose term ended in 2004, wrote in a Twitter account linked to his website that he had learned he had been named in the case, and said he hoped authorities would explain why.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Cavazos, who left office in 1999, told <i>El Universal</i> that the investigation was “suspicious ... coming in an election campaign,†and suggested it might have political overtones. He denied any wrongdoing.All the former governors are members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which held Mexico’s presidency for 71 years until President Felipe Calderon’s National Action Party won the 2000 presidential elections.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiulqFoFqaFO2OuUZIxxHVj_K-klDJKhVwmKDLeEzwrAWi9xuX9WHXitJLZqOkAeEpIcLr3FVxVbffoMnndRVwCNN1tyCFKb-YPOQZeWHI1itz60yinMzuJunL02g31UIsoKxRzXyA-2Kc/s1600/Tomas_Yarrington.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" sda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiulqFoFqaFO2OuUZIxxHVj_K-klDJKhVwmKDLeEzwrAWi9xuX9WHXitJLZqOkAeEpIcLr3FVxVbffoMnndRVwCNN1tyCFKb-YPOQZeWHI1itz60yinMzuJunL02g31UIsoKxRzXyA-2Kc/s200/Tomas_Yarrington.jpg" width="145" /></a> Hernández Flores is the outgoing Tamaulipas governor and is part of the campaign team of front runner PRI Mexico presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">While Matamoros mayor, Yarrington was said to have large holdings on the U.S. side and Cavazos was linked to a large road construction enterprise that went bankrupt while holding multi-million dollar state contracts. Those projects were never finished.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">A local businessman with wide ranging contacts in Mexico said that among some of those on the lists were people who have expensive properties in the Rio Grande Valley, including homes in McAllen, Brownsville, Rancho Viejo and South Padre Island.<br />Although media reports indicate that the other 43 persons named in the PGR missive were not available, the Monterey-based El Norte pub;lished a full lista nd their relatiosn to the three PRI former governors.<br /><br />Related to Eugenio Hernandez:<br />Adriana Gonzalez de Hernandez, wife<br />Elsa Eugenia y Jose Eduardo Hernandez Flores, sister and brother <br />Alma Lucresia Cano Pastor, sister of Lucia Cano Pastor, ex-delegate of the Public Education Secretariat<br />Alfredo Sandoval Musi, Ex-Subsecretary of Outlays (Egresos)<br />Carlos Montiel Saeb, local ex-State Representative, (Diputado)<br />Manuel Muñoz Cano, ex-Secretary of Social Development<br />Oscar Luebbert Gutierrez, ex-mayor of Reynosa<br />Ramon Duron Diaz, director of Tamaulipas Adult Education Institute<br />Rene Castillo de la Cruz, local representative for the PVEM (?)</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-1218306076223110707?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/01/local-ripples-as-thre-former-tamps-govs.html
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TWO PEMEX GIANT DRILLING PLATFORMS DUE ANY DAY OFFSHORE: BILLION DOLLAR ENTERPRISE TO BE SERVICED BY TAMPICO, MATAMOROS
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">While Port of Brownsville administrators say things will pick up with what they hope will be the eventual 2018 opening of a proposed liquefied gas plant in Brownsville, Mexican media outlets are reporting that two giant state-of-the art offshore drilling rigs are due to arrive any day 135 miles off shore Brownsville to drill for PEMEX.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The West Pegasus and the Bicentenario drilling platforms are accompanied by company helicopters that are located at the Matamoros airport. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvK3vFBWgLMfpDKeTSxOlfXre1bsPQShaDs_EpuxsPvAMQGj1mvHdQKoyaYY1eXcJlMkgeDDr5Oa5SrQch_u8d5yJbUCdtsgurBxVF2v0wONbkitR5BAsIDk5Kvsv8fa2V5yvWAkFUsRQ/s1600/crudo-petroleo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" sda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvK3vFBWgLMfpDKeTSxOlfXre1bsPQShaDs_EpuxsPvAMQGj1mvHdQKoyaYY1eXcJlMkgeDDr5Oa5SrQch_u8d5yJbUCdtsgurBxVF2v0wONbkitR5BAsIDk5Kvsv8fa2V5yvWAkFUsRQ/s400/crudo-petroleo.jpg" width="400" /></a>The enterprise carries a $1 billion dollar budget to explore in deep water in Mexican side of the Perdido field. These are newly built, state of the art, deep water drilling vessels. The hundreds of workers that will man these rigs will be resupplied from distant Tampico, at great expense. </div>They will need not only daily food supply, but also fuel, drill pipe, drilling mud, lube oils, etc, that will probably be supplied by Tamaulipas and Mexican suppliers.<br />News reports also indicate that Pemex will start drilling three exploratory wells on the marine boundaries bordering the United States as soon as next month â€" February 2012 â€" in the area known as the Perdido Fold Belt in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.<br />Carlos Morales Gil, director of Pemex Exploracion y Produccion (PEP) [Pemex Exploration and Production], told El Universal that if crude petroleum is found on the Mexican side in an area of more than 12,000 square kilometers, "the treaty on cross-border deposits will have to be negotiated in order to regulate the exploitation of the resources that are found."<br />He explained that the negotiation is called for because companies like Shell and its partners have already been exploiting deposits on the US side since 2010 for the purpose of extracting 130,000 barrels of crude per day.<br />Pemex will set up the Bicentenario and West Pegasus platforms in this area, since this is drilling equipment with capabilities to operate in water depths of up to 10,000 meters, and it would allow the Mexican government to confirm the most important find of crude and gas of the past few decades.<br />The Mexican state petroleum company estimates a potential of 3 billion barrels of crude, equivalent to 21 percent of Mexico's current proven reserves of crude.<br />Morales Gil commented that if the existence of the reserves is confirmed the financial requirements for developing and exploiting the resources, the investment may rise to $10 billion in a period of five years.<br />The Perdido Fold Belt is a southward continuation of US production provinces that cross the marine borders or to the north of Mexico's deposits, according to the Mexican government's view. The studies conducted in the two countries show that "the Hammerhead well, which is located on the US side, connects with the Magnanimo deposit in Mexico, and the Trident extends to national territory to Alaminos, wells that are located in water depths of 2,800 and 3,100 meters and where the petroleum strata are located another 4,500 or 5,800 meters below the bottom of the sea."<br />So far, an estimated 1,200 wells have been drilled in the region, while on the Mexican side â€" toward the south of Mexico â€" the figure reaches a mere 14, excluding those that will have to be drilled in Perdido.<br />Industry sources indicate that it took Chevron and Shell eight years to develop the Great White-Silvertip-Tobago field discovered in March 2002 and which in March 2010 gave them the first production, which could reach 130,000 barrels per day in the next few years, according to information that the oil companies presented on their web sites.<br />The prospective resource identified to date by Pemex varies in a range from 500 milion to 3 billion barrels of crude oil equivalent. This area is considered as one of the most attractive in the search for light oil in deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, part of which Mexico and the United States share. <br />Of the total potential of the Mexico-US marine production region, 70 percent belong to Mexico and the rest has been licensed to multinational firms from the United States side.<br />The PEP director said that this would be the most important discovery in many years, since the potential of productive resources that may be obtained in the region is equivalent to 3.2 years of production at the current rates of extraction.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-1469046298986252557?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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