Bush, Enron & Argentina

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

President Bush tries to distance himself from Enron, though a few things
have come out.  Here's a passage from an article by Pratap Chatterjee
written some time ago, asserting that the current president intervened
directly for Enron in Argentina in 1988.  Chatterjee's article, which
was posted to Pen-L [14681] a while back by Michael Pugliese.

Gene Coyle
 

>   In 1988, George W. Bush, another of the Bush sons who is now governor of
> Texas, reportedly telephoned Rodolfo Terragno, Argentina's Public Works
> Minister, to ask him to award Enron a contract to build a pipeline from
> Chile to Argentina.
>    ''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,'' Terragno recently told The Nation weekly magazine.
> Enron ultimately won the bid under the next government, headed up by Carlos
> Menem, another Bush friend.