Reborn American Giants

Outside the window was a dazzling blue sea. Victor was now on a Pan Am Boeing 757 medium-haul passenger plane, its final destination was New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

After arranging his work after leaving, Victor set off for the United States. In addition to Ato, Landorio, Porfirio and 6 bodyguards on this trip, the woman Louisa was also traveling with him and was sitting next to him at the moment.

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New York, this city located at the mouth of the Hudson River, has become the nerve center and financial heart of the United States after more than two hundred years of development. Nearly eight million people live in this huge city of nearly 789 square kilometers.

, 56 of the world's top 500 companies are headquartered here. The goal of Victor's trip is to contact the two energy giants Exxon and Texaco among the seven major oil companies.

Compared with Exxon Oil Company, which was split from Rockefeller's Standard Oil due to antitrust laws, in Victor's memory, Texaco, an oil company founded in 1901, has a broader business scope. It mainly

Produces crude oil and natural gas products across the world

The world has 24 refineries. The company has 2,300 gas stations, sells its fuels and lubricants, and is actively engaged in research on alternative energy sources, developing coal resources, developing shale oil, and mining tar sands, uranium and other minerals.

It also owns oil pipelines and a fleet of ocean-going oil tankers.

However, the current situation of this company is not very good. Texaco competed with Penzer Company for Getty Oil Company in 1983, and won the acquisition war at a high price, announcing the acquisition of the former oil company for US$10.1 billion.

An oil company founded by King Paul Getty. However, Penzel Company immediately filed a lawsuit in the federal court, demanding that Texaco's acquisition of Getty Oil Company be declared invalid on the grounds of unfair competition and that Penzer Company be compensated 280

billion US dollars.

Now this acquisition dispute between several major oil companies has attracted the attention of the whole United States. If Penzel wins the lawsuit (which is very likely), it will set the most "expensive" sky-high compensation in history.

Texaco is likely to face bankruptcy and liquidation because it is unable to provide such a huge compensation.

This is no joke. Don’t look at the market prices of these energy companies, which are often worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Those are the stock values ​​brought by fixed assets, because the company owns oil and gas fields, ocean-going fleets, and gas stations all over the world.

, these things gave the market confidence in energy companies. In fact, after Texaco paid the acquisition fee of Getty Oil Company, it was no longer able to raise up to 10 billion US dollars in compensation.

All this has been reflected in the market. In the recent period, Texaco's stock price fell by 12% on the New York Stock Exchange. The company's market value instantly evaporated by nearly 7 billion U.S. dollars. The company's shareholders also launched shareholder lawsuits one after another, trying to escape.

This giant ship is about to sink. The current CEO of the company, Aaron Elvis, has a head as big as an ox. On the one hand, he has to appease the major companies that have been in chaos due to the company's stock price plummeting and its market value evaporating.

The shareholders also need to prepare for litigation with Penzel Company, and at the same time beware of other peers who are eyeing Texaco. He now urgently needs a major "good news" to stimulate the market's interest in Texaco.

He has a declining voice and stabilizes the situation. As long as Texaco is allowed to breathe again, he will make those who are adding insult to injury understand why Texaco has become the second largest oil and energy company in the United States.

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The end of December is the coldest time in New York. It suddenly changes from the subtropical zone, where the average winter temperature is about 23 degrees, to the northern temperate zone, where the winter temperature hovers around -3c1c all year round. It faces a city covered in silver.

, Victor let out a heavy breath, bringing out a white mist.

Even after tightening the coat he was wearing, Victor still felt a biting coldness. It seemed that he was used to the climate in El Salvador.

Louisa next to her was wearing a purple mink coat with a fur collar, her hair was pulled up into a lady's bun, and two long strings of pearl earrings hung from her ears, setting off her slender white neck, making her look...

Graceful and luxurious.

But at this moment, like Victor, she seemed a little unable to stand the climate in New York. She stamped her feet. Louisa urged: "Let's leave quickly."

"You don't believe me when I ask you not to follow me. You insist on saying that you are coming to attend New York Fashion Week. How are you now?"

Louisa rolled her eyes at Victor and ignored his sarcasm.

The group of people arrived at the "Immigration Inspection" of the airport, and Victor took a photo of his passport in front of the staff member who was checking the passport with squinting eyes.

El Salvador is a benchmark set by the United States in Central America. The United States has a series of preferential conditions and policies for it. One of them is that as long as you are a national of El Salvador and go to the U.S. Embassy with your passport, you can easily apply for a U.S. e2 visa.

, and are visa-free for more than 30 major countries around the world.

As a result, a large number of Salvadorans chose to flee to the United States to escape the war. When these people first arrived in the prosperous capitalist country, they were dazzled, but then they woke up and found that they were facing the same situation as in American movies.

The paradise of the free world promoted in it is completely different. These people have no skills and want to live in the prosperous United States, just like they do in their own country.

Without Franklin, it would be difficult to have enough to eat, and the people the U.S. social assistance system is responsible for do not include them, a group of poor people from Latin America.

In order to survive, it is not difficult to imagine their choices. The final result was that these Salvadorans who came to the United States formed a gang organization that would cause a huge headache to the U.S. government in the future - the Crazy Salvadorans.

Of course, Victor is wearing handmade custom-made clothes from Savile Row, a famous clothing street in London. He has a beautiful lady on his arm and is followed by a large group of bodyguards in black clothes and sunglasses. He looks like a big shot.

Americans are not stupid either. When they feel like it, they can scold congressmen, mayors, and even the president, but they will never scold rich people because they understand very well that it doesn't matter if they scold those damn politicians.

Politicians still have to show their smiles to win their votes. But it won't work if you offend the rich. They will make you understand why people from other countries call the United States a "country controlled by conglomerates." So the staff member did not

No matter what kind of "moth" you are doing, it will be stamped and released quickly.

The hotel we booked is the Marriott Hotel located near Central Park in Manhattan. This is a five-star hotel that can be ranked among the top few even in bustling New York.

As soon as Victor and others stepped out of the terminal of JFK International Airport, a woman with short brown hair, wearing a black women's suit and a floral silk scarf tied around her neck, approached her. Before Porfirio could wait,

When the bodyguard took action, she already spoke out, a string of slightly jerky Spanish, "Is this Mr. Jose Victor Acero from El Salvador?"

After receiving a positive reply, the woman dressed in ol' style said in Spanish with an American accent: "Ah, Mr. Jose, I am the private account manager sent by Citibank to serve you. My name is Abigail.

Brenda, you can call me Abby..."

"You can speak English," Victor interrupted in English when he saw the girl named Abby introduce herself in unskilled Spanish.

In the four southern states of the United States, including New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, and California, which border Mexico, as well as Florida and other places across the sea from Mexico, Spanish can be regarded as one of the most popular languages ​​besides English.

foreign second language.

In other places, it is better to speak English. Victor knows that if it were not for the nearly 900 million US dollars in cash lying quietly in his Citibank account at this moment, Americans, who have always looked down on the people of the third world, would never send them

A little girl who spoke halting Spanish was waiting for him at the airport.

"Ah, that's great." After returning to her normal accent, the girl named Abby immediately said fluently: "Mr. Jose, we have prepared the hotel room for you, but we didn't expect you

With so many entourages, the vehicles prepared in advance may not be enough, so we have to ask them to take a taxi to follow us."

"It doesn't matter, please lead the way," Victor nodded.

Then following Amy's guidance, they got into a Cadillac limousine parked on the roadside. Porfirio and others also stopped several taxis, and the group disappeared among the high-rise buildings in New York...