THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW Business Coordinating Council (CCE) will change its president. Carlos Salazar will leave the position to Francisco Cervantes. That Wednesday, March 2, the voting will be a mere formality.
It has been known for a month that the Executive Commission of the CCE opted for the former president of the Concamin. And almost a year ago the tenant of the National Palace had expressed his sympathy for him.
Once the vote is completed, where Cervantes goes with at least five votes against two for his only opponent, Bosco de la Vega, a week will have passed since the meal that the president offered to the CCE.
An election as simulated as the same meal that was soon convened by the person who still liaises with the businessmen, the former head of the Office of the Presidency, Alfonso Romo Garza-Madero.
In that meeting, López Obrador looked very confident and in a very good mood. The attacks against his government and his family did not show him sullied. On the contrary, he very much pushed forward against his opponents.
Those who did look fearful were the guests themselves. The 15 attendees had the floor. The vast majority advocated and asked for support from their sector. One or another stammered a kind of thanks.
In the first hour and a half of a talk that lasted about four hours, no word about corruption in the government of the Fourth Transformation. Neither from José Ramón López Beltrán nor from the Gray House.
The Tabasco made mention of four businessmen. Twice Ricardo Salinas, whom he said he respected for being a critic of his government, but that he also knew how to recognize the successes of his administration.
Same comment regarding Carlos Slim Helú: they did not always coincide, but a businessman who could recognize progress, such as the construction of the new Felipe Ángeles International Airport.
Of Alberto Báilleres, as a very organized man, who left his succession ready, and of Antonio del Valle Ruiz, as a good adviser to him personally. The first three members of the Business Advisory Council from him.
During lunch, López Obrador sent a faint signal of what his Energy Reform proposal could end up with: “remove the edges” and continue the analysis to identify its areas of opportunity.
At no time did he question the strong defense that the business sector has made of the current legal framework, of private contracts and of private investments.
The meal ended with a tour of the National Palace.
TODAY IS SCHEDULED the bonding hearing of the partners of the law firm that Juan Collado denounced, as part of a reparation agreement and a criterion of opportunity offered last year by the head of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), Alejandro Gertz Manero. The day before, the unit leaked the complaint to pave its objective of applying preventive detention to the accused. Many elements of the investigation folder, which have been published weeks ago and with greater force yesterday, sound implausible and could be combated by the office of Juan Araujo, César González, Isaac Rodríguez and the financier David Gómez Arnau. If the FGR does not want to make another ridicule like that of Emilio Lozoya and Ricardo Anaya, it has to solidly support its accusations. Yesterday Julio Scherer and Santiago Nieto began to separate themselves. Although the complaints hit the litigants hard, at the same time they operate as a shield for them because the final objective of the prosecutor is the former legal adviser to the Presidency. If Gertz and his prosecutor, Juan Ramos, do not have a well-armed case, if those accused build a good defense, and if Andrés Manuel López Obrador and those close to him are consistent and oppose the release of the person who represents what they promised to eradicate, the prosecutor will have lost. a decisive battle. But if the opposite happens, Gertz will gain such empowerment that it will be more difficult for those who want to remove him and see him as increasingly risky even for the presidency itself.
MARIA ASUNCION ARAMBURUZABALA He has just taken another step towards retiring from business in Mexico. He closed the sale of Medistik, a logistics specialist in various areas of the pharmaceutical industry. In its five distribution centers, it safeguards more than 30 million doses and medical devices a year. The businesswoman sold it to Grupo Traxion, of Aby Lijtszain, an industrialist who, with this operation valued at nearly 140 million dollars, is strengthened as one of the main new distributors of medicines for the IMSS, Issste and Insabi. Medistik, which was an investment of the Tresalia fund, was represented by Goldman Sachs, the brokerage led by Manuel Camacho Velasco.
OTHERS NOT those for nobody are the brothers Andrés and Felipe Chico Hernández. They have just partnered with the influential fund KLS Capital Partners. It is a vehicle that since 2005 has carried out more than one hundred operations for an amount of 15 billion dollars in the field of travel and high-end accommodation. Rodina Capital, the fund of the children of Fernando Chico Pardo and nephews of Roberto Hernández Ramírez, provided four hotels, one of which is the Viceroy of Los Cabos. The Chico Hernández are closing other hotel purchases in Spain in parallel. They already own the Villa Magna and the Bless in Madrid and the Four Seasons in Palma de Mallorca.
THOSE THREE PHARMA REMAINED in second place in the consolidated purchase of Profopol that Insabi made a few weeks ago. The company commanded by Diego Argüelles will supply 40% of the requirements of the organization directed by Juan Antonio Ferrer. We are talking about one million 750 thousand pieces. In the market, many began to wonder if the supplier will comply in a timely manner, since the product comes from Ukraine. It is manufactured by the company Farmak, from Volodymyr and Viktor Kostiuk. Well, we can assure you that Esotres has a guaranteed supply of the anesthetic agent. They already have a part in their warehouses and another part is on its way by sea.
THE CFE IS READY now the award of another couple of combined cycle plants. It is Norte IV, better known as Lerdo, in Durango, with 350 megawatts and a cost of approximately 375 million dollars; and Manzanillo, with another 250 megawatts and an investment close to 300 million dollars. The interesting thing is that the followers of Manuel Bartlett are now promoting the Chinese Harbin Electric International, which does not exactly enjoy the best reputation and does represent a contingent risk. As we informed you, the state production company has been assigning the last eleven plants mainly to German Siemens and Japanese Mitsubishi.
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