Pemex: Real Debt vs. Official Narrative - Industry & Energy Magazine

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Governor Javier May Rodríguez said that Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) “has been paying” Tabasco’s suppliers and contractors to whom he owes them. Although he did not offer figures, he said he trusted that in this month of July the dispersion will continue to flow. “Pemex has been paying the companies, as we understand it, they have already started to pay and I am sure that this month the resource will continue to flow and we hope that soon that de…

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Sheinbaum presented misleading data on Pemex’s debt. The real decrease was 7.7%, not 24.9% as the government presumes. President Claudia Sheinbaum presented at her morning conference on 1 July a chart in which she states that Pemex’s debt fell 24.9% during the six-year term of López Obrador. However, specialists warn that the information is misleading: it compares non-equivalent periods, uses outdated and different figures from those reported by…