FRIDAY, MAY 29.
PROGRAM # 7777 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
None of the 24 people who died from the explosion in the Pajaritos petrochemical plant Clorados III in Mexico, was a worker from Petróleos Mexicanos, but instead employees of companies that were sub-contracted by the company ICA-Fluor, who were not trained adequately to operate a petrochemical plant, according to an expert on the subject. The plant manufactured vinyl chloride, base material to make plastics. The energy reform allowed the entrance of private capital. Today, the former banker Antonio del Valle owns 56% of actions, while Pemex has 44%. 1,900 specialized technicians employed by the para-governmental company used to work there, but now there are only 733. This edition also includes other issues. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts Voz Pública from Mexico City.
Guests: Silvia Ramos Luna, Engineer, and Secretary of Oil Studies and Analysis, Unión Nacional de Trabajadores y Técnicos Petroleros (UNTYTP); (pretaped audio) Fernando Valadez, Colectivo Contra la Tortura y la Impunidad,
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