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Doncarrapito, sumerbustecito se preguntaba el otro d�a acerca de ENRON. Antes de leer el comentario que sigue (de buena fuente), quiero solamente ( y para d�rmelas de esc�ptico) que nos acordemos que ENRON Europa est� "vivito y coliando" y que todos los ENRONenses en el tope, por m�s que crujan los dientes, hicieron bastantes centavitos con esta bancarrota arreglada. Dentro de cinco a�os estar�n otra vez, muertos pero de risa, los ''mesmos con las mesmas'' Prosigamos entonces con el obituario, seg�n Nick Cohen. ================== Australian markets will be on tenterhooks this week as the extent of fallout from the Enron Corp debacle begins to crystallise. Australia's big four banks have already admitted they face a $675 million blowout in bad debts ======== by Nick Cohen Observer (London) Sunday December 2, 2001 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4311540,00.html = Enron, the Elvis of the corporate world, really is dead = The collapse of Enron in what looks like being one of the greatest corporate bankruptcies in history should be a moment to console unemployed workers. Sympathy for the victims will not, however, prevent full-throated 'yippees!' being heard around the world. Earlier this year I nominated the Houston energy corporation for the hotly contested title of World's Worst Corporation. The angriest protester could not have invented a firm that better connected the greed of the First World to the exploitation of the Third; the groovy PR of the new economy to lamentable service in the real one. Enron bankrolled Indian politicians who allowed it to build a power station at Dhobal near Bombay. Electricity prices tripled. The police beatings of protesters were so brutal, Enron became the subject of Amnesty's only report on a corporation rather than a dictator. In America, Enron financed both Republicans and Democrats. Bush was impressed and took the advice of Kenneth Lay, Enron's chief executive. They agreed that what the US needed was fewer regulations, even though Enron was one of the deregulated companies bringing power cuts to California. As in the US, so in the UK. Enron was a contributor to New Labour, which allowed Enron to take over Wessex Water (prices shot up by 34 per cent) and gave Lord Wakeham, a Tory Energy Minister, a boardroom seat. With all this protection, Lay and his colleagues must have been managers of exceptional incompetence to bust their company. Its demise is a blow for the business journalists who drooled over Enron while ignoring the paybacks and violence. The Economist and Wall Street Journal gave loyal service, but they were outdone by Fortune magazine which wrote: 'Imagine a country-club dinner dance, with a bunch of old fogeys shuffling around half-heartedly. Suddenly young Elvis comes crashing through the skylight. Half the waltzers faint, a very few decide they like what they hear, tap their feet, start grabbing new partners, and suddenly are rocking to a very different tune. In the staid world of regulated utilities and energy companies, Enron is that gate-crashing Elvis.' There are sad saps who believe Elvis lives. No one will make that mistake about Enron. -------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE COLEXT as the BODY of the message. Un archivo de colext puede encontrarse en: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ cortesia de Anibal Monsalve Salazar
