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Octavio Romero prepares suitcases; he will leave Pemex

The Finance area prepares a package with information on the state of the oil company with a cutoff of

July 31, 2023

Ulises Juarez by Ulises Juarez August 16, 2023

Octavio Romero Oropeza, could be preparing his departure from Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) after holding the position since December 2018, to pass the baton to Sergio Ayala Salvio, current corporate director of Operations of the state company.

At the moment, the team of the still CEO would be putting together a package with the financial documentation and reports on the state of the company with a cut-off of July 31, 2023.

The Pemex Corporate Finance Department received the instruction yesterday from Romero Oropeza's office to prepare information on bank accounts, details of liabilities, labor fund balances, budget exercise reports and liquidated tax obligations, all dated to the last day of the seventh month.

Likewise, the General Directorate of the State productive company would have required a scheduled list of the pending resources to be exercised and fiscal obligations to be settled, among much other information, revealed last night sources who requested anonymity .

"Although this is supposed to be delivered monthly, they are emphasizing a cut-off date," said one of the sources with knowledge of the information integration process.

"Today they asked them for information that is only delivered when there is a change of administration," added another for Energía a Debate.

Yesterday, a letter signed by the President of the Republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, addressed to Sergio Ayala Salvio , with the Subject "Appointment of C. Sergio Ayala Salvio" and dated August 14, 2023, circulated on social networks. , in which he would explain the reasons why the delivery-reception process between the teams of Romero Oropeza and Ayala has been delayed.

“Through this channel, I allow myself to make you fully aware that in relation to Official Letter of the Presidency-120/23/260 dated July 24 of this year, where I express my decision to appoint you General Director of Petróleos Mexicanos. Said appointment remains valid and in force, however, due to issues of the delivery-reception process that will have to be carried out once the current General Directorate of PEMEX has the documentation and reports that will be delivered to you and your collaborators in full order," it was stated . read in the first paragraph.

Later, in the document, the chief executive states that Romero Oropeza is aware of the delay and that both teams agreed to a new term of at least 15 additional business days for the delivery-reception process, although he does not mention as of when.

The document has marked copies for Alejandro Esquer Verdugo, private secretary of President López Obrador; Luisa María Alcalde, Secretary of the Interior, and Octavio Romero Oropeza himself in his capacity as director general of Pemex.


Shortly after this document with number Presidencia-190/28/303 was circulating on social networks, a fragment of a video also appeared on them where Ayala Salvio can be seen – who is also general secretary of the Union of Oil Workers of the Republic of Mexico (STPRM)– accompanied by several people in an office environment. An unidentified character reads the aforementioned office aloud. At the end of the reading, everyone applauds as a sign of celebration.

The facilities correspond to the Maney & González-Félix PC law firm , owned by partners Miguel Ángel González Félix, Roberto Keoseyan Arakelian and Fernando Heftye, residing in the Polanco area, Miguel Hidalgo Mayor's Office in Mexico City.

The law firm, with a presence in Mexico City and Houston, United States, boasts among its clients the Mexican government, Pemex, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) and even the North American energy company ENRON.

Until the closing of this note, Pemex did not officially confirm the veracity of the official letter signed by President López Obrador, nor of the video in which Ayala Salvio appears in the offices of the legal firm.

However, the newspaper El Universal, in its digital version, reported that Pemex's Social Communication area assured him that "Octavio Romero Oropeza continues and is firm in the position."

After the governorship of Tabasco

Since 2022, in the political sphere, the version has increased that Octavio Romero Oropeza, a native of Jalapa, Tabasco, aspires to govern the entity that saw him born.

Romero Oropeza, an agronomist by profession, is one of the president's most trusted figures, his countryman and friend. When López Obrador was head of government of the country's capital, the still head of Pemex served as his Senior Officer, that is, the one who managed the city's money.

It should be remembered that on the afternoon of June 13, the federal chief executive summoned the members of his legal and extended cabinet to his offices in the National Palace to find out, with a view to next year's elections, at once, who will will remain in his current position and who will leave him to seek a candidacy for one of the popularly elected positions.

In addition to the Presidency of the Republic, the two Chambers of the Congress of the Union, 9 governorships, including that of Tabasco, and local congresses will be renewed.

In fact, within the framework of the 2022 Mexican Petroleum Congress (CMP), held in July of that year in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Octavio Romero told the attendees that, at that time, he had not defined his candidacy to govern his entity and insisted in which the times had to be respected.

However, in his message, he left the door open to the possibility of running.

"I think that all of us politicians who are in faculties always have the idea of ??what we can serve, what we can offer our faculty, if we have it," he said in a crowded room at the Tabasco 2000 convention center.

"If the answer goes in the sense of whether there is an interest, I don't think there is anyone who does not have an interest, having the possibility and the faculty," he added.

The still functionary would seek the governorship of Tabasco for the official party Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional (Morena).

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