December 17, 2007 (LPAC)--The International Molesters Fund (IMF) said it is happy Mexico has had a "breakthrough year" in passing structural "reforms" --the kind the IMF likes, like stealing people's pensions-- in 2007, but now the time has come to put through energy "reform," IMF Deputy Director of the Western Hemisphere Department, David Robinson, told reporters on Dec. 13.
By "energy reform," the IMF means turning the national oil industry over to the British Empire's robber barons. Lyndon LaRouche's contrary policy, which was shared by President Jose Lopez Portillo (1976-1982) until the IMF staged a virtual coup d'etat against his government, is for Mexico to develop and exchange its oil for nuclear energy technology, which would benefit not only Mexico but its major trading partners, such as the United States.
Robinson freely admitted that the IMF is no expert in the oil industry, but that didn't stop it from asserting in its annual review of Mexico's "performance," that oil producer Mexico will become a net importer of gasoline by 2012, if it doesn't let private interests in on the business. Ignoring decades of success in maintaining a highly qualified workforce since Mexico nationalized the oil from the cartels in 1938, the IMF argues those poor Mexicans just don't have, and can't develop, the expertise or technology to develop the difficult deepwater oil fields which the IMF views as key for Mexico's finances.
Robinson was enthusiastic that the financiers imposed Calderon government is "strongly committed" to moving ahead on oil reform.
Not to be outdone, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico issued its own "expert" report on foreign investment in Mexico the next day, intoning that Mexico must pass labor, education... and energy reforms, if it wants foreign capital to stay.
The report included the shocking fact that cheap labor producer, Walmart, has now become the leading private sector employer in Mexico, with 150,000 employees--showing just how destroyed Mexico's own industrial economy has become under the North American Free Trade Accord.
