Man, the only one here that's assuming lower imports are the only thing being considered here is you. I posted the whole article of the WSJ, which in reality talks about a combination of 5 factors that provoked the shortage: one that's just temporal (the season), two that were inherited to this administration (related to the sorry state of Pemex) and two caused by the team of our new president. Read it if you haven't.
Before the WSJ, El Universal published an article about a conversation between Rocío Nahle and Carlos Treviño where she asked them to cancel a contract to buy light crude that was announced a week earlier. Reforma and later the WSJ confirmed the existence of shipments of oil coming from the US that are in the Gulf of Mexico unable to deliver the product because of the current strategy of stoping the flow of oil through pipelines. You're also willingly ignoring that Whelan asked for confirmation from Pemex about the data he had but Pemex didn't produce any, which seems to be a common modus operandi of the current administration. If you've forgotten already, they denied that there were shortages in the first place and they keep doing so; the constant attack from the presidence to the media is something more to worry about too, not only regarding the current news but pretty much about everything else.
I guess we can agree in that currently there is a cluster fuck of information with different versions , this is all over the place and we don't know if we will get all the facts. AMLO is blaming sabotage, it's not a shortage, but failing in the destribution, International media is dog piling with their investigations and the far-right is using everything as ammo against any measure or annoucement given by the current administration, even if this means taking things out of context, like Whelan called out.
I take issue about your comment regarding AMLO's attack to the media and i see that you try to compare our situation with the one in US. I think this is incorrect. Because in here most of the Media are/were controlled by the neoliberal regime , now they are in the opposition, they are attacking this administration with everything they have. This is not the same.
On an unrelated topic, do you think it's a bad thing to try to rely less on the US concerning oil?
I'm pointing flaws in the strategy of this administration and I'm not making shit up, I actually posted the WSJ article that states the reasons of the current situation in many cities all over Mexico, again the article of the WSJ does never state that the reduction of imports is the reason of the whole situation, it's that combined with the lack of foresight from the current administration (in other words plain incompetence) that lead to this outcome.
Discussing options as members of the Mexican people is important, not only shitposting and going away. Not saying you, but in general. So having this kind of conversations is nice.
Regarding the incompetence.Claudia Sheinbaum already came out with a plan for CDMX , refilling gas according to license plates. God knows why they are just coming up with options, it's really fishy why they didn't contemplate this situation.
Did you just compare one of the oldest newspapers of our country to Breitbart? I must confess I almost fell for it.
Way to dismiss most of the point i was making.
But no, i was calling Fernandez Menendez Braitbart. BUT, Edit: For some reason i had te universal in my mind, edited my previous point, nevertheless Excelsior is not too shabby either. Didn't Excelsior serve as another controlled newspaper after Julio Scherer (Head honcho of Proceso) left the publication?
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