Salina Cruz merchants and builders, to whom Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) owes them the amount of one billion pesosthey left Mexico City in protest to claim payments to the Mexican company.
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The debt, they reported, has been dragging it since last year and has caused the dismissal of hundreds of workers and the impossibility of some construction companies participating in tenders because it has no financial liquidity. A provider of the Mexican Chamber of the Construction Industry, Víctor Alonso González, said that Only the members of the Port of Salina Cruz are owed 400 million pesosthat Pemex has been paid since last December.
Tomorrow we will go to the tower of the company, the building where the general director dispatches, to ask that they receive us and give us a payment date. Otherwise, the suppliers warned, We will go to the Zocalo with cards in the hand, to ask for an audience with President Sheinbaum.
The builders and merchants assured that, due to the debt of the oil company, they also face pressures from their suppliers and they in turn, from those who supply them. “It’s a chain, but we have the obligation to pay, as Pemex has that obligation,” they said.
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We know, they indicated that Pemex has already begun paying part of his debts in the southeast of the country, but the oil company has not turned to see us in Salina Cruz, And we want it to turn to see us because we are drowned from debts and commitments for the lack of payment of the oil company.
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