AlanMexicali

On 3/8/2022 at 11:43 AM, AlanMexicali said:

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/12/28/mexico-plans-to-end-oil-exports-in-2023-to-reach-self-sufficiency

Bloomberg:

"Mexico plans to end crude oil exports in 2023 as part of a strategy by the nationalist government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to reach self-sufficiency in the domestic fuels market.

Petroleos Mexicanos, the Mexican state-owned producer known as Pemex, will reduce crude oil exports to 435,000 barrels a day in 2022 before phasing out sales to clients abroad the following year, Chief Executive Officer Octavio Romero said during a press conference in Mexico City on Tuesday.

The move is part of a drive by Lopez Obrador to expand Mexico’s domestic production of fuels instead of sending its oil abroad while it imports costly refined products, like gasoline and diesel. Mexico currently buys the bulk of the fuels it consumes from U.S. refineries.
If fulfilled, Pemex’s pledge will mark the withdrawal from the international oil market by one of its most prominent players of the past decades. At its peak in 2004, Pemex exported almost 1.9 million barrels a day to refineries from the Japan to India, and was a participant in meetings by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries as observer.

Last month, the Mexican company sold abroad slightly more than one million daily barrels, according to Pemex data.

The export reduction will come as Pemex increases its domestic crude processing, which will reach 1.51 million barrels a day in 2022 and 2 million daily barrels in 2023, Romero said. The Mexican driller will plow all of its production into its six refineries, including a facility under construction in the southeastern state of Tabasco and another one being bought near Houston, Texas. This plant is considered part of Mexico’s refining system even if located across the U.S. border."

The heavy Gulf crude oil Mexico has has to be mixed with imported light crude to be refined into gasoline and diesel.

I just read a news article about Dos Bocas. It will probably be completed in the 8 to 9 years the Worldwide companies building refineries estimated. It will probably cost 16 to 18 billion USDs these companies estimated. But it will be the one refinery that doesn't need light crude oil to mix with Mexico's heavy crude like all the other refineries in Mexico do.

Quote: "From the little that is known, direct assignments abound, and billions of pesos with no clear destination. The same is happening in Dos Bocas, where we have already gone from 8 billion to 12 billion dollars in the expected cost, but very likely we will reach 16 billion. On the other hand, it is already clear that it will not operate during this six-year term, but during the next one, according to public information. But that remains to be seen, because it is designed for heavy crude, which by then we may not have enough of.

In fact, during February, the production of heavy crude oil was 683 thousand barrels per day, 10 percent less than a year ago, 200 thousand barrels less than two years ago, 350 thousand less than in 2019. At that rate, in three years all production would have to go to Dos Bocas, leaving the rest of the National Refining System without inputs. Maybe it won't matter by then, because the old refineries don't work very well anymore, so to speak. By the way, in February Pemex's production was the lowest since the 1970s, with the sole exception of July 2020, which was practically the same as last month."

https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/opinion/macario-schettino/2022/03/25/lo-perdido/?outputType=amp

3 hours ago, mexijims1 said:

This Government doesn't get it-- dumb in so many ways.   Best way to drive away the people most helpful to the economy, EXPATS !

Seriously?

130,000,000 citizens : 200,000 foreigners.

= Expats contribute =0.0000153846 percent. Not helpful at all.

2 hours ago, MakeItSo said:

Do you mean stability of Mexican financial institutions? Government interference (if one exists)? etc?

The present Mexican federal government cannot be trusted.

2 hours ago, Ferret said:

I trust the Canadian Banking system far more than I would ever trust the one in Mexico. 

Me too.

So sorry to hear that. Alan

2 hours ago, gringohombre said:

Gobbledygook!!! Let's deal in reality here, not some sort of word stew that is not based on repudiation of FOCTS as I have presented regarding the EVIL of Socialism. If you are a Socialist, fine...just admit and let's move on!!!

20 minutes ago, AlanMexicali said:

You really do not have a clue - do you?

7 minutes ago, gringohombre said:

Again...someone here posting a derogatory post without any backup or facts!!! Just proves WHO does not have a clue!!! 

I replied to your same narrow minded selective propaganda 11 days ago on another thread you infiltrated with the exact same comments as here you are fruitlessly trying very hard to sell again but you ignored me.

See here: 

"  On 3/6/2022 at 11:28 PM, gringohombre said:

Socialism is evil!!! There is no form that is good. Some talk of democratic socialism...what an oxymoron!!! Socialism took Russia to where it is today, at the point of starting WW3. Socialism took us to WW2 as Hitler took charge under the banner of  National Socialist German Workers' Party. Castro took Cuba under the socialist flag. Hugo Chavez an avowed socialist took Venezuela, the most prosperous and democratic country in South America, to the depths of poverty and despair it is at today. And now there are actual ascending parties in the US and Canada trying to gain POWER under this name!!! God help us all!!! " 

 

     My reply to you 11 days ago:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.eu/article/spain-pedro-sanchez-socialist-stronghold/amp/

You claim:  "Socialism is evil!!! There is no form that is good. Some talk of democratic socialism...what an oxymoron!!!"

Your hasty judgements are only mentioning fascist regimes and dictatorships which won in a democratic election with their propaganda and later became dictators and communist dictatorships. No mention of social democracies in Europe which thrive like in Spain.

"OPINION
Spain: Europe’s socialist torchbearer
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s economic policies offer a model for the European left.

Jacob Soll is university professor and professor of philosophy, history and accounting at Dornsife College at the University of Southern California. He is the author of “The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations.” 

There is a common impression in European politics that social democracy is all but dead. In France, the once triumphant and powerful Socialist Party has practically disappeared. In Germany, after having gone so far as to govern with the conservative Christian Democratic Union, the Social Democratic Party risks being displaced by the Greens as the leading party on the left. But in Spain, there’s a different story.

Since coming into power, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party has overcome what has been a near universal challenge for Europe’s social democrats: avoiding a disconnect with working people.

Sánchez took power in June 2018 after forcing a no-confidence vote that ousted conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Rocked by corruption scandals and Catalan separatism, Spain had reached a political stalemate and an unprecedented institutional crisis, as the right’s approach to governing had left the country suffering some of the worst wealth inequality in Europe.

Sánchez was able to form a coalition with the leftist Podemos party, which was supported in parliament by small parties, including a Catalonian pro-independence party. With these protest parties — which previously sought to work outside of Spain’s constitutional framework — now able to constructively enter the government, the Socialists became the party of democratic compromise, and the only recourse for those looking for a return to societal calm.

By rejecting austerity from the get-go, Sánchez has kept the party connected to working people, women and voters outside of the major urban centers. Meanwhile, his government has prioritized more funds in areas such as health care, education and equal pay, and insisted that all policies meet ecological standards and goals. Thus, not only has the left maintained its voting base and crucial social investment, it has also avoided the rise of a competing Green party.

With the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a growing international consensus that income inequality and lack of social investment undermine economies. And Sánchez has set out to address Spain’s inequality by investing in Spanish economic development to build out of the crisis, also calling for what he likened to a modern Marshall Fund for the EU.

His government used its own COVID response budget to decrease poverty, with a majority of those positively affected being women. It has also raised the minimum wage by 29 percent since 2018, passed a law to give permanent contracts to many temporary government workers and with its “Riders Law,” extended full labor rights to gig economy workers, going so far as to make sure they have access to understanding the algorithms that control their work and wages. As a result, wages have risen for nearly 240,000 people.

At the same time, the government is also aiming to help small and medium businesses, which account for 70 percent of all employment. Smaller companies sometimes struggle to adopt technology to remain competitive and transition to more sustainable models. Helping these businesses to scale up, with €4.5 billion earmarked to help modernize 1.5 million companies with digital transformation, is about making a modern, progressive economy.

The government is also focusing on supporting entrepreneurship by easing bankruptcy laws and scaling down bureaucracy. In other words, Sánchez is helping Spanish companies make long-term strategic, technological and operational investments, which they could not otherwise afford to make.

The Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal won the 1974 Nobel Prize for showing that markets often leave out large swaths of the population — meaning that for markets to work, societies have to remove barriers of entry. In Spain, this has taken the form of providing money for the poor, removing burdensome regulations for small businesses and restoring social stability in Catalonia.

So far, Sánchez’s plans appear to be working. Spain’s 2022 growth forecast is the highest in the EU, and the country is currently one of the world leaders in COVID vaccination rates.

Amid all the talk around the decline of European social democracy, under Sánchez, the Spanish left is a success. European progressives should take a closer look. As the economic consensus moves from austerity toward social investment, the party’s achievements provide a blueprint for social democratic parties across Europe to renew their commitment to working voters, counter nationalist and populist politics and put progress back on the European agenda."

2 hours ago, gringohombre said:

Gobbledygook!!! Let's deal in reality here, not some sort of word stew that is not based on repudiation of FOCTS as I have presented regarding the EVIL of Socialism. If you are a Socialist, fine...just admit and let's move on!!!

You really do not have a clue - do you?

2 hours ago, gringohombre said:

Yes, in the Nunnery this works fine...but in real life not so good...look at the history. I could recommend many books the spell it out in great detail but of course those who have been brainwashed and bamboozled would not be interested in learning about FOCTS!!! 

A perfect example of psychological projection. You are actually describing yourself. Wake up to reality which includes focts not right wing propaganda which is based on fantasy.

11 minutes ago, gringohombre said:

It is soooo easy to denigrate someone without any FACTS to back up your statement!!!

You really do not know what you are talking about. Did Rush Limbaugh teach you this nonsense?

https://worldnewstimes.com/tony-burton-writes-for-expats-as-eager-to-learn-about-mexico-as-he-was/

16 minutes ago, Jreboll said:

You’re quoting an article from 3 months ago. Biden just announced they’ll stop importing Russian oil so that puts a monkey wrench in all previous plans.

US only imports 3 percent Russian oil. 

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/12/28/mexico-plans-to-end-oil-exports-in-2023-to-reach-self-sufficiency

Bloomberg:

"Mexico plans to end crude oil exports in 2023 as part of a strategy by the nationalist government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to reach self-sufficiency in the domestic fuels market.

Petroleos Mexicanos, the Mexican state-owned producer known as Pemex, will reduce crude oil exports to 435,000 barrels a day in 2022 before phasing out sales to clients abroad the following year, Chief Executive Officer Octavio Romero said during a press conference in Mexico City on Tuesday.

The move is part of a drive by Lopez Obrador to expand Mexico’s domestic production of fuels instead of sending its oil abroad while it imports costly refined products, like gasoline and diesel. Mexico currently buys the bulk of the fuels it consumes from U.S. refineries.
If fulfilled, Pemex’s pledge will mark the withdrawal from the international oil market by one of its most prominent players of the past decades. At its peak in 2004, Pemex exported almost 1.9 million barrels a day to refineries from the Japan to India, and was a participant in meetings by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries as observer.

Last month, the Mexican company sold abroad slightly more than one million daily barrels, according to Pemex data.

The export reduction will come as Pemex increases its domestic crude processing, which will reach 1.51 million barrels a day in 2022 and 2 million daily barrels in 2023, Romero said. The Mexican driller will plow all of its production into its six refineries, including a facility under construction in the southeastern state of Tabasco and another one being bought near Houston, Texas. This plant is considered part of Mexico’s refining system even if located across the U.S. border."

The heavy Gulf crude oil Mexico has has to be mixed with imported light crude to be refined into gasoline and diesel.

8 hours ago, cstone said:

Dottiejane, you are correct about the fees and care availability in many of the care homes. However, while day to day expenses are affordable, serious medical intervention and hospital care is, as I stated earlier, cheapER NOT cheap.

Many retirees thinking about an escape to this lovely area have simply started too late in life for it to be affordable. Many assume that their Medicare or even insurance from a retirement benefits package will cover them here and think no more about it until they find out that it will not. That is sad and puts one in a difficult position, in addition to having to financially qualify for permanent/temporary residency.

I am the one that suggested the $250,000 health care slush fund, based upon personal experience. In cases of brain surgery or multiple illnesses, that might wipe it all out in a year or two.

There is no need to be confused. It boils down fairly simply.

#1 You must qualify for Temporary or Permanente Residency.

If you cannot be covered under your current Medicare plan here in Mexico, then you have only a couple options :

* After you qualify for residency, go ahead and live life with no insurance, hope for the best and pay for any and all medical care + transportation yourself. There is no safety net here. After you exhaust all your funds, you will be sent home. That is the end of life for many. That is also when we see the Go Fund Me campaigns.

* After you qualify for residency, see if you can enroll in the Federal Health Insurance, maybe with exclusions for pre-existing conditions. Be prepared for long wait times, and sometimes you will NOT get to see the DR even if you had an appointment. Expect repeat visits every month for Rxs, but sometimes the meds are available and sometimes they are not. There may be open and mixed sex wards if you are hospitalized, and you will need to bring your own linens, toilet paper, soap, towels, nightgowns, water, even food and your daily care items + pay for someone to be with you 24/7 and they or you will need to speak Spanish. Nurses there do not do that kind of patient care. That is what families are for.

Many people come for 6 months, stay as a tourist and use their Medicare. Or, you can buy travel insurance. Problem is that immigration is no longer automatically granting 6 months visas.

SKY MED if you are stable enough to be transported back to your home in the USA. Of course, if you have to be in hospital for a while to be stabilized, you must pay.

It sounds cruel,but moving to Mexico is certainly not for the poor, not for people on fixed incomes with no cash backup, or even many of the middle class who are tethered to the Medicare System or the insurance in their retirement package. 

I wish you luck.

 

 

 

"After you qualify for residency, see if you can enroll in the Federal Health Insurance, maybe with exclusions for pre-existing conditions. "

There is in the better socialized medicine system in Mexico called the IMSS where exclusion to join  because of pre-existing medical conditions AND wait periods from 6 months to 3 years to cover other pre-existing medical conditions not exclusions for treatment for these conditions.

The other socialized medicine system in Mexico with no exclusions to join or waiting periods that any legal resident can join is called INSABI but it has much less coverage and does not cover any third tier illnesses.

If you go to a general hospital's emergency with a major illness including 3rd. tier illnesses you can be admitted or outpatiented if it is taking INSABI insurance (example: Guadalajara Civic Hospital) and be diagnosed and treated at a per fee for services rate I guess to be about 1/4 the cost of the bottom rung of private hospitals like Star Medica and about 1/8 the cost of a top rung private hospital but maybe not with the best results.

I know many Mexicans doing this with good results.

Guadalajara maids don't speak one word of English. There are hundreds of them in every neighborhood and many looking for full time jobs. Competition might not allow them to charge more or they would. Besides who cares about Guadalajara labor rates? Apples to oranges.

On 7/1/2017 at 11:31 PM, kbleitch said:

We just did this. The bottom SMALLER part of the FMM form is what is taken by the airline when you DEPART Mexico. The top LARGER part is what you hand the immigration agent (along with your temp or perm resident card and passport) when you ENTER Mexico upon your return. 

2 hours ago, Chop said:

This is quite the thread...leaving me a little bit confused as I try to sort out the protocol before leaving MX in a couple weeks for a quick trip up to the states.

Is the information above still current, or have changes taken place since 2017?

Still required for Residente Temporal and Residente Permanente. If you don't have the smaller bottom part of the FMM card from the IMN desk at the airport on international flights to hand into the airline staff at the departure gate they will not allow you to board the plane.

50 minutes ago, MakeItSo said:

What are 3rd tier illnesses?

35 minutes ago, CHILLIN said:

I am surprised that Alan did not mention the INEGI hospitals, formerly Seguro Popular. The public and general hospitals in Guadlajara have been rated as among the best public ajd general hospitaps

I did. INSABI socialized medicine system was once the Seguro Popular which did cover 3rd. tier illnesses but INSABI does not. More of AMLO's taking money from the health care sector and putting it in his pet projects and doing the wrong thing.

5 hours ago, MakeItSo said:

I don't mean to hijack this tread. I find it a fascinating and horrifying topic for a European / Canadian, who's been through several long term hospitalizations and surgeries in Europe and Canada, and never in my life saw a bill or paid out of pocket (universal healthcare), with the exception of paying for medication in Canada. I've been coming to Mexico for 20 yrs, with only travel insurance. Later this year I'll be applying for permanente visa, with the goal of becoming a citizen down the road. And I hope to get on the national medical insurance here. Is there a reason for a permanente / citizen to buy private insurance? 

Yes. IMSS one of 4 socialized medicine systems which a legal resident or naturalized citizen would have complete coverage has many exclusions to join for chronic health illnesses. Waiting periods for others. Costs yearly up to $17,000 pesos per adult over 70. Another system INSABI which is free more or less and has no exclusions or waiting periods does not cover 3rd. tier illnesses. ISSSTE is the best system and covers almost everything, but is only available to federal government employees and their families. Military medical plan is good but only for military and their families. Pemex medical plan is only for their employees and their families. If you are excluded from joining the IMSS  because of chronic illness/es your options are to self insure for major illnesses. You possibly could return to your country for medical care.