The black light: suspicions about Edesur’s intervention

We are facing a striking paradox, if you will, nice, with what is dark about it. It is that the political life of Sergio Massa, which has been an eternal spectacle of light and sound, has met with the misfortune of power outages.

I speak of Sergio Massa because he is the Minister of the Economy who decided to adopt, to assume energy management under his command with all the risk that this entails, as is seen these days. There is enormous pressure from the government, from Kirchnerism, on the Edesur company. It is a pressure that has to do, as we all know, due to power outages, due to the number of downed users that have occurred in that company.

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There have also been other users who have lost service who are from Edenor, from the other distributor in the metropolitan area, and an economist, Nicolás Gadano, wondered today if, now, this company is also going to be intervened. Gadano is mischievous with the question, because Edenor belongs to José Luis Manzano and Daniel Vila, close friends and promoters – let’s say, business sponsors – of Massa as a minister and, eventually, as a candidate, if he manages to emerge unscathed from his experience as Economy Minister.

Sergio Massa with the Secretary of Energy, Flavia Royón. Edesur’s intervention was announced. Photo: Telam

Here a question appears in the irony of Gadano when he says “and now that the users who fail are Edenor’s, are they also going to send an auditor?”: it is the link that exists, increasingly close, very important because of type of capitalism that is being modeled in Argentina among public service companies and friends of power. Because? Because the Edesur authorities suspect that, behind the government harassment, there is pressure for them to sell their assets -which are for sale, in a long process- to a group linked to Kirchnerism.

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There are two candidates who were sniffing around the company to see if they could stay with it. One, the Olmos group, which is linked to the Crónica media group and the other, a well-known name, Fabián de Sousa, from the Cristóbal López group, C5N, Ámbito financiero, etc. They are very identified with the government, very identified with Kirchnerism, and they aspire to stay with the company.

The question that must be asked is why, if a multinational company that operates in at least 10 countries like Enel, the owner of Edesur, cannot maintain the service, if Argentine businessmen are going to do so? Because today, the business of public services consists of doing business with subsidies, not receiving the rate and selling the merchandise, which is energy, and to do business with subsidies, you have to be a friend of power.