Enron had joined the bidding for a contract to build a $300 million pipeline in Argentina. The government appeared close to choosing between two other companies -- one from Italy, Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi, and the other a partnership between Argentine firm Pérez and America’s Dow Chemical.
Argentina’s Minister of Public Works, Rodolfo Terragno, later told Mother Jones that he considered Enron’s one-page project outline "laughable." He also noted that Enron "wasn't well established in Argentina." [Mother Jones, March/April 2000]
But Enron apparently was getting well established in the power corridors of the U.S. A few weeks after the 1988 elections, Terragno said the president-elect’s eldest son, George W. Bush, called to check up on "the slow pace of the Enron project."
Terragno recalled that the younger George Bush said that giving Enron the project "would be very favorable for Argentina and its relations with the United States." Terragno didn’t know whether this message was from the White House or whether Bush was working a business deal on his own.
Previously posted, but better than ever: Doxo Wox:
I. Oranges of the highest caliber
It's bull street I mared to them passing neighbor. It buss streak I sweared, this is the candelabra: this root is the world and the flames are the universes. No, Jenkins, he told me strait up, is this harvest time, no. Okay for a tokay gecko to smecko? No, Jenkins, oh no. It's bull street with the Shepherd in mind, the leopard behind him, par Dei! No, Jenkins, oh no. That cat floated up from the floor like a charbroiled raspberry. No, Jenkins, oh no. This is the song they performed.
-excerpt from Doxology
And I was having a conversation with a friend about my mouth pain and dental problems, and he mentioned mercury poisoning from silver-amalgam fillings. Scary stuff, and possibly the makings of the next big class-action law suit.
