It seems their lives depend on it. The unrestrained defense that our highest authorities make to demonstrate the Spanishness of Repsol is moving, not to say that it borders on the pathetic. It is not for less this disturbing defense. ...
It seems their lives depend on it. The unrestrained defense that our highest authorities make to demonstrate the Spanishness of Repsol is moving, not to say that it borders on the pathetic. It is not for less this disturbing defense. You only have to see the personnel records of the oil company and its payrolls to see reflected in them the names of many former political leaders, rulers and relatives, including some current ministers.
It is normal that favors have to be returned and defend their positions as advisors tooth and nail. I have never understood it well, but I think that "Spanishness" means that.
About what is a Spanish company there would be much to talk about and discuss. Repsol was created by the Spanish Government, but it was privatized by the Government of President Aznar. One would have to ask, for example, how "Spanish" is a company that a large part of its capital and its interests are currently in foreign hands.
A company that, since it was privatized, in order to have the lowest possible tax burden, puts its capital in tax havens, thus evading taxes and expatriating profits, creating subsidiaries to escape the Spanish Public Treasury. It has not been precisely Spain that has benefited from its business activity.
Let's not forget that those who now make an all-out defense of the Spanishness of this company are those who promoted the privatization of this and other companies, which were then Spanish. At that time they argued tooth and nail that everything was for the general interest.
Now those same people who left their saliva on the benches and in the "obscurantist" ? no less luminous for them- offices are very well placed receiving beautiful payrolls of advisors, managers and other herbs. It is understood what the "general good" means, right?
But let's not fool ourselves, because that of the general good or common good, as they prefer to call it, is practiced by all those who, regardless of the social layer and political color to which they belong, pursue their own interest and their private benefit at the expense of whoever and whatever. Exactly the same as what this company does, which wherever it operates leaves an environmental burden difficult to recover.
While it was doing well, it did not claim its "fictitious" Spanishness at all. Nor did our authorities come forward to give it a slap on the wrist when it violated human rights or plundered entire towns in order to get its way. The laws, it is more than seen, are made for those who handle the money.
Governments execute the policies they want, which are not precisely those of those who are hungry or have a job to survive. That is why you have to go for it all. And now, with the excuse of International Law, you have to seek support from those who are in on it, the same ones who have equal economic interests. Those who help them find ways to put justice at their service.
Today for me, tomorrow for you.
