the prime minister threatens to nationalize gas

“We need to have gas in the country, which is accessible to those who have the least. Today we have access to international costs“, Bellido added to the press during a meeting with the unions in Arequipa.

Although the president Pedro Castillo, and the Minister of the Economy, Pedro Francké, reiterated during their recent international tour that the government does not intend to expropriate, the Prime Minister contradicts the position of the executive by ordering the gas concessionaire Camisea.

“We are not communists, we did not come to expropriate anyone, we did not come to scare away the investments, on the contrary, we call on the big investors, businessmen, to go to Peru, to reach Peru” , Castillo told the Permanent. Washington Council of the Organization of American States (OAS).

On September 13, Castillo announced his intention to “recover” the Camisea gas field, one of his main offers when he was a candidate for the presidency and that he mentioned July 29 during the ceremony. symbolic inauguration at La Pampa de la Quinua, in Ayacucho (south-east).

“We are going to buy the trial to recover Camisea gas for all Peruvians”Castillo announced at the inauguration of a university in the Cajamarca region.

More than 1.2 million homes currently receive natural gas, according to the government, or one sixth of the nation’s homes.

Besides, Peru exports liquefied natural gas to Mexico, China, Japan, South Korea and some countries in Europe.

Its exploitation is in the hands of a multinational consortium with American, South Korean, Algerian, Argentinian and Spanish capital, which controls the Camisea deposit, in the south-east of Peru, one of the largest reserves in America. from South.