Reply #151: "agricultural company".. I need that name [View All]

[SoCalDem]

I have been looking and looking.. That company (with his buddy Bath) was the cover for when they and his brother Neil (I think) went to meet woth Menem in South America..

I have never been able to get the name to search for who else was involved..

They always are so vague with the background:(


I did find this.. not the right time frame, but interesting anyway

The Bush Beat

ast month our Governor took time out from his busy inaugural schedule to go

golfing with his father and Argentine President Carlos Menem at Austin’s Barton Creek Country Club, in what the local paper celebrated as "his latest foray into foreign policy." It was just a little foray, for George the younger (in the throes of the flu) only joined in for three holes.

Meanwhile, we’re still wondering how many holes he played in a 1989 gas pipeline deal in Argentina. According to a member of the Argentine Congress, in 1988, while George H. W. Bush was vice president and campaigning for the presidency, his son leaned on the Argentine government in an attempt to win a huge pipeline contract for Enron — the Houston-based energy company whose CEO Kenneth Lay has taken equity positions in the political campaigns of both Bushes.

Reporter David Corn faxed George W. Bush a list of some eighteen questions about the Enron deal in 1994, just as Bush was concluding his first race for governor. He dismissed each of Corn’s questions with no explanation. Bush did say he never called Rodolfo Terragno, the Argentine Congressman who raised the Bush-Enron issue in debate on the floor of his country’s Congress. Terragno had served as the minister of public works in the reform government of President Raúl Alfonsín, and he maintains that Bush called and introduced himself as the son of the Vice President. "He tried to exert some influence to get that project for Enron," Terragno told the Observer in November of 1994. "He assumed that the fact he was the son of the President would exert influence.... I felt pressured. It was not proper for him to make that kind of call."

Enron didn’t get the concession — until the Bushs’ golfing partner, Carlos Menem, defeated Raúl Alfonsín. "Enron was luckier with the new president," Corn reported in the Observer. "The pipeline was approved by the administration of President Carlos Saúl Menem, the leader of the Peronist Party and a friend of President Bush."

Menem not only approved the project. In his book Robo para la corona (I Steal for the Crown), Horacio Verbitsky, one of Buenos Aires’ most respected investigative journalists, reports that Enron got more than a contract. President Menem made the Houston-based energy company eligible for his industrial promotion program: Enron was declared exempt from Argentina’s value-added tax (IVA) and would pay no duties on capital goods while the pipeline project was in the works.

The day after Menem was inaugurated, another Bush son, Neil, played a highly publicized game of tennis with the new President in Buenos Aires.

http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=937