by Don Quijones • December 15, 2015 “Negative profits were being converted into positives.” By Don Quijones, Spain & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET . Abengoa, the Spanish renewables giant that once thought it had mastered the dark arts of financialization only to crumble under the weight of its own debt, urgently needs a lifeline. In November, it filed for preliminary protection from creditors. If it doesn’t get a lifeline, it will be go down in history as Spain’s biggest bankruptcy ever. According to the latest accounts, its creditors may have thrown it that lifeline, but barely enough to last through the very inconvenient general elections this Sunday and the holidays, when the government is off. A Last Minute Stay Amazing as it seems for a publicly traded company, there’s still “no official figure for the firm’s total financial liabilities,” Reuters reported, though “separate sources familiar with the matter say they total at leas