Symbol of another time, the salute of Carlos Romero Deschamps of Pemex was sent to the Mexican State in the divan. Leader of the allied oil syndicate for 26 years, from 1993 to 2019, has kept his job in Pemex, following the insidious reports of corruption, a constant in his life. The union’s death was the first death of a man he has ever seen. Hi, new murmur. The president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said this March that the petroleum minister was leaving his job at the voluntary “paraestatal”. Cierto o no, su salida abre un gran interrogante sober la capacidad -y la voluntead- de la justicia para proserle. The Fiscalía General de la Repúbica (FGR) has filed charges against it for fraud, embezzlement and money laundering.
Romero Deschamps (Tampico, 1944) was the last leading charter, “a trade unionist in the old age, with few democratic practices and no surrender”, as the researcher Ana Lília Pérez wrote in a profile dedicated to the trade union leader, public in 2012. Pérez, who has dedicated four books to Pemex and his corrupt, explained in an interview that the power of Romero Deschamps “established by all the directors of the paraestatal, by including the secretaries of state, the same with the PRI que con el PAN ”. By no means do I want to convey that I recommend for the mother to be inactive. Pemex’s salute was given to him by his plane.
With more than 100,000 affiliates, twice as many as the oil industry, the union has been associated with a wide range of decades as a “group of gangsters, traitors, bargainers and the pugna eterna by local leaders to play national leadership”, added. Pérez. In this logic, the union’s work has consisted of expressing to more workers than ayudarlos, belonging to the mafia union, the sale of places, even if it is ok by example in the educational body. The difference is that petroleum has always been more lucrative than classrooms.
Hijo de ferrocarrilero, Romero Deschamps se hizo petrolero a la sombra de la refinería de Salamanca, en Guanajuato. A first method to work on eventual in 1969, where it is planned to make a fire. Apenas un muchacho, Romero Deschamps cayó bajo el ala de Joaquín Hernández, alias La quina, primer gran líder del syndicato, que se mantuvo al frente durante 31 jaar, van 1958 tot 1989.
Carlos Ibarra, Reynosa’s former oilman, said that Romero Deschamps had planned to ascend because he was converted to La Quina’s driver. “There was a dictatorship, man!”, Exclaims, “because of the union’s statutes, every three years the leadership of the northern, central and southern zones. Sondeverbod, neither La Quina nor Romero Deschamps will answer so ”.
La traición a La Quina
De La Quina hay recuerdos differ. Pérez says that he was a charismatic man, as never was Romero Deschamps. “The Quina was very polemical about his power, he built the union empire,” he said. Para Ibarra, the epoch of La Quina fue terrible. “We form the National Petroleum Movement in 1975,” Ibarra recalls, referring to a trade unionist faction, of which Todavia is the vice president. “At this time we are pushing for a democracy here, this is slave labor, the sale of places, etc. And he also accepts the right of loss: the workers, in order to assign work to their husbands, tenian that llevarles first to the heaths to the conductors ”, account.
La Quina cayó in the first year of Gobierno by Carlos Salinas de Gortari. The motive does not appear clear, but the authorities discovered it in its case in 1989. Tanto Pérez, like Ibarra, states that Romero Deschamps traced it. With more detail, Pérez explains that Romero Deschamps called his husband’s hours before the detention, only to find out he was at home.
In the wake of La Quina, Romero Deschamps had to save one year. The leadership of the syndicate has many innovations and pretenders have been hoping for decades of opportunity. A jubilee petrolman, Sebastián Guzmán, went to the board, but his mandate was briefed on the culprit of diabetes. In 1993, Romero Deschamps joined the syndicate.
Ibarra guarda malos recuerdos también de esa epoca. In December of this year, the fraudulent election of the union leader of the 24th section of the union, with seat in Salamanca, acabó a los golpes. Including hubo a death. “No one has changed his mind, because the assemblies are not authorized to vote secretly for the election of the union leaders,” she said.
The descendant of the old petroleum rival in tamaño with the scandals in which he saw Romero Deschamps sent to the lodge of the years. Quizá one of the most famous sea el Pemexgate, the scheme of triangulation of millions of Pemex pesos to the PRI campaign in 2000, in the works of the union. “Pemex was the gooseberry chic box in turn”, critic Pérez. “To do whatever you want to do, make sure you pay with Pemex money, an example of this is the Pemexgate”, Añade. “That’s what Romero Deschamps did to convert the syndicate into a power to vote”.
Justice has heard the word. Romero Deschamps salió indemne del scandalo del Pemexgate, as part of the exceptional use that hizo of the bureaucratic gambeta: the leader oil consiguiient assistants in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate has on five occasions. Lejos de Pemex y el syndicato, la pregunta ahora es si tendrá un as escondido en la manga. For those who respect Pemex, neither Pérez nor Ibarra are so optimistic. “Now that his treasury is the leader of the union. One very deceptive thing has to do with the property Gobierno ”, dice Ibarra. “The structure of the syndicate is priceless and has been maintained,” added Pérez. “The people who died in the union are their most vulnerable group. The dome is with the one that works ”, zanja.
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