The Alburquerque-New York-Madrid triangle and the plot against Iberdrola

Take a map and draw a triangle. Join with a straight line Alburquerque, New York and Madrid. A triangle that has formed a strange alliance starring those who jeopardize the interests of Spain.

First vertex. Alburquerque. City founded in 1706 by the Governor of New Mexico, the Asturian Francisco Cuervo, who named it after the then Viceroy of New Spain: the Duke of Alburquerque. There the Spaniards were besieged by Apaches and Navajos. And vice versa.

Now Alburquerque is the largest city in New Mexico, more than half a million people live there. It is where all the social and economic life of the state takes place, to a greater extent than in the capital Santa Fe.

State Governor Michelle Luján Grisham. She was the first Democratic and Hispanic governor of a state in the United States. A congressional representative in the House of Representatives, she soon ran for governor, winning a significant majority of support.

As a progressive governor, she wants to provide clean energy to the homes and industry of all Americans living in the 47th state of the Union. After Iberdrola's success in starting the decarbonization of 25 U.S. states, where she has been working for almost twenty years through the company Avangrid, the governor is very sympathetic to the presence of the company from Bilbao to spearhead New Mexico's environmental and ecological policy.

Iberdrola-Avangrid enjoys the best reputation in the USA. The North Americans are dazzled, as the media attest, with the imposing offshore wind farm, which will be the first in North America and which represents an investment of 3,000 million dollars for Galán's company.

Iberdrola's reputation in the US is so huge, especially in the environmentalist and Democrat world, that the Attorney General fully supports the investment of 6,000 million dollars that it is preparing to make in New Mexico. One more.

But the governor has a whole series of enemies who, although they have hardly any representative capacity, are part of a commission without whose authorization the process cannot get underway. Commissioners whose clashes with New Mexico Democrats go back a long way

Despite the approval of all the authorities in Washington, as well as the authorities and committees in New Mexico, a single commission has paralyzed the Spanish investment. Their arguments, in order to erode the governor's image, have been, among others, the innocuous Villarejo case in which Galán has nothing to do.

An investment that for Iberdrola barely represents one more in its expansion in the USA and whose postponement has delayed the welfare and health of the citizens of New Mexico (it will go ahead in any case).

But the commissioners who have opposed it are no strangers to other economic agents residing in New York who have encouraged them to make a decision against their own citizens.

Second vertex. New York. The big oil companies see renewable electricity companies as their great enemies. It is natural: the decarbonization of the planet is going to make these companies dedicate themselves to frying popcorn instead of continuing to pollute.

Not in vain, Repsol asked Pablo Casado to return to coal, coal that the Italian company Endesa-Enel produces without any qualms to produce electricity in Asturias and Galicia.

Well, from New York, the commission has been encouraged to take a stand against the governor and thus damage the reputation of a sustainable electricity company. The same companies that, in the face of Iberdrola's attempt to decarbonize the state of Maine, incited a referendum that was won by the polluting American oil companies and has led Galán's company to go to court.

The Albuquerque-New York phone lines have been smoking during the last few weeks. The Spaniards, who had already become the second largest private electricity company in the world, leader in renewables, decarbonization and the fight against climate change, had to be stopped.

In New York they looked under the carpets to see if they could find any blemish on the Basque 'new conquerors'. There it was, under the carpet, a retired commissioner trying to do damage in a ridiculous and naïve way. And that is how Villarejo's name reached New York and from there he was sent to Alburquerque well packaged for the commissioners to put as an argument against the matter of the false denunciation to Galán.

And that is how we arrive at...

Third vertex. Madrid. Iberdrola is a Bilbao-based company with enormous international projection. It is almost five times the size of Repsol. That's all there is to it.

But in Madrid it has suffered many aggressions that it has systematically rejected: Gas Natural or ACS (Florentino Pérez), among others. Attempts to take over the company have ended up in the dustbin of history. But not in oblivion.

From Madrid, the polluters of New York and the populists of Alburquerque are sent all the necessary information to harm Iberdrola. Both recognize that there are interests in Spain that feed them with the sole objective of destroying the reputation and expansion of the Basque company.

And Madrid is where the result is distributed. One (or two) law firms, they say, receive the news of the damages they inflict on Iberdrola and distribute them as quickly as possible to those media that have Iberdrola in their sights.

The personality of Galán, the president who has turned the company from a mere local generator to the second largest private electricity company in the world, easily puts him in the spotlight compared to others who hide under a table.

It has been pathetic how the news of the decision of a commission in Albuquerque, which represents a small part of Iberdrola's interests in the United States, encouraged by New York, reached Spain in tenths of a second. Never has news arrived so soon. Rumor has it that via a Madrid law firm, whose client is an IBEX company. From there, it immediately passed to a certain media and, subsequently, to the rest of the media with the aim of damaging Iberdrola's reputation and growth.

Growth, by the way, unstoppable, because it has just signed an agreement with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to invest 7.7 billion pounds sterling there.

But in Madrid there is also the Audiencia Nacional, whose judge, García Castellón does not want to drop the case and insists on putting Galán in the dock for the Villarejo case. Nothing would happen if it were not known that this same judge previously did not want Galán to testify. Nothing would happen if it were not that the evidence for which Galán is charged is false. Nothing would happen if it were not for the fact that the judge did not want to make an expert examination of the false evidence.  Nothing would happen if it were not for the fact that the case, in addition to being false, is time-barred for the matter affecting the chairman of Iberdrola. Nothing would happen if we had not seen the obsessive stubbornness of García Castellón to put Ignacio Galán in the dock. Now we all know that he has got himself into trouble to show that some members or officials of the National Court do not live in the same vertex as others.

Go back to the map and look at the triangle drawn between Alburquerque, New York and Madrid. Think of an obvious plot that no one is unaware of. Think about Spanish investments abroad and their success. But above all, think that the future of our children will be clean energy... or it will not be.