ボリビアのエボ·モラレス大統領は、スペインの電力会社のIberdrolaの4つの子会社のLa Paz県とOruro県 の電力配給会社とサービス会社と投資管理会社を国有化すると発表、
Evo Morales nacionaliza cuatro filiales de Iberdrola en Bolivia
El presidente justifica la medida porque cobraba más del doble a los usuarios rurales
La eléctrica española pedirá una indemnización de 75 millones
La ministra de comunicación boliviana: "Vamos a pagar el precio justo de la empresa"
Entrevista con la ministra de comunicación de Bolivia
Mabel Azcui / Ramón Muñoz Cochabamba / Madrid 29 DIC 2012 - 22:13 CET
Evo Morales nationalizes four subsidiaries of Iberdrola in Bolivia
The president justified the measure because charged more than double rural users
Asked Spanish power compensation of 75 million
Bolivian Minister of communication: "We will pay a fair price for the company"
Interview with Minister of Communication of Bolivia
Mabel Azcui / Ramon Muñoz Cochabamba / Madrid 29 DIC 2012 - 22:13 CET
This time he chose the May to announce the nationalization of a company, as has happened in most of the cases so far. The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, decreed on Saturday the expropriation of four subsidiaries with Iberdrola operates in the Latin American country-two distributors of electricity in the regions of La Paz and Oruro, a service company and an investment manager- alleging they charged more than double to consumers in rural areas.
This is the second nationalization targets a Spanish company in less than eight months in Bolivia. Last May, the firm expropriated Morales Transportadora for Electricity Grid, which has not yet been compensated. "We have been forced to take this measure to electrical service tariffs are fair and uniform quality in rural and urban areas," said Morales. A contingent of 740 heavily armed police was displaced at 28 strategic points of La Paz and Oruro to protect power distribution.
COUNTRY
"We have spoken with the company, we have spoken with the company, which undercut everyone assume its social responsibility as a company, are Spanish. Four months of negotiations without result," Morales said in a ceremony with coca leaf producers of central Chapare in Cochabamba, his political and union stronghold.
Iberdrola reacted prudently waiting to know the details of the expropriation decrees and simply noted that the Government expected to "pay the real value" of its shares. In the decree, is given within 180 days for an independent valuer to decide compensation. And although he has not power encryption, independent experts give a market value to subsidiaries expropriated 100 million dollars (75 million euros).
Without knowing the details of the decree, the expropriation could be even more powerful, and splash to other Spanish and foreign companies. Iberdrola operates in the country through Iberbolivia Investment holding, which owns 64%. The rest is up to the Peace Fund Holding, involving among other investors General Electric Capital, Mission and Structure Finance Funding.
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Bolivian Minister of Communication, Amanda Davila, said during Sunday morning told the Cadena Ser that the Morales government will "correct and just pay the price of the company" to reimburse investments that have been made.
Investment Iberbolivia owns 89.5% stake in the Electricity Company of La Paz (Electropaz), which also involved the Banco Santander, with 10% of the capital and 92.8% of the Company of Light and Oruro Force (Elfeo). Expropriated companies account for about 0.2% of Iberdrola business: around six million euros of the total profit (2,804,000 in 2011).
President Morales nationalized companies considered to have "centralized services in urban areas" relegating care to rural areas of the highlands, where the inhabitants are scattered over large areas and form sparse groups.
According to the ruling of the left, this lack of attention has led to the creation of cooperatives and small rural businesses who have served poor, uneven and highly differentiated tariffs among themselves and in relation to urban areas.
The Deputy Minister of Electricity, Hortensia Jimenez, announced after the expropriation that one of the priority tasks is to reduce tariffs to 50%. This nationalization entire electric utility system, from generation to distribution home, it is up to the National Electricity Company.
Bolivia entrepreneurs have complained that the government has assumed the expropriation of foreign companies just when they are discussing a new investment law to attract new investment.
Nationalizations since 2006
Since coming to power in May 2006, President Morales has pursued a policy of nationalization with the idea of recovering all the utilities and production of goods such as cement, for example, that before the decade of the ninety belonged to the Bolivian state and have subsequently been sold by 50% of its shares to private investors in order to alleviate the huge deficit that the country generated the Treasury companies incurred cumbersome bureaucracy, burdensome expenses and had become true political spoils to partial sale.
Morales and expropriated in 2010 the shares of four power generation companies, including two subsidiaries of France's GDF Suez and Britain's Rurelec, which initiated arbitration Bolivia in the Court of The Hague by that measure.
In addition to power, Chavez has nationalized fifteen oil companies, cement and mining, among others, since coming to power in 2006.
But with the expropriation of the subsidiaries of Iberdrola, the Bolivian government has expanded its nationalization policy to a private company that has been historically. Spanish power company controlled retail markets of those cities since the 1990s, when it bought part of the Bolivian Electricity Company, a firm that was founded by a group of U.S. private investors to early twentieth century.
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