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Mexican drug cartels cripple Pemex operations in basin
The kidnappings of five petroleum company workers along with 30 others have terrorized the oil community, paralyzing segments of the business. Months later, families have still heard nothing.
Reporting from Reynosa, Mexico —
The meandering network of pipes, wells and tankers belonging to the gigantic state oil company Pemex have long been an easy target of crooks and drug traffickers who siphon off natural gas, gasoline and even crude, robbing the Mexican treasury of hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Now the cartels have taken sabotage to a new level: They’ve hobbled key operations in parts of the Burgos Basin, home toMexico’s biggest natural gas fields.
Forced to defer production and curtail drilling and maintenance in a region that spreads through some of Mexico’s most dangerous badlands, the world’s seventh-largest oil producer has become another casualty of the drug war.
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2 Comments on "Mexican drug cartels cripple Pemex operations in basin"
KenZ300 on Tue, 7th Sep 2010 10:45 pm
When are the Mexican people going to demand more from their government?
Crime, corruption, lack of jobs, bribes,
are all problems in the Mexican economy.
It is a shame that Mexicans leave their country and migrate north rather than demand that their government provide for the people.
Windmills on Tue, 7th Sep 2010 11:09 pm
The massive amounts of drug money we send to that country is obviously more powerful than the demands of the citizens ever will be. Blaming the Mexicans for the criminals we create in their country is a bit disingenous. Our drug money has bought a virtual criminal army in Mexico. Their government can’t stand against it. The federal government there will only get weaker as domestic oil depletion and US immigration enforcement reduce oil revenues and remittances, major sources of income in the country.
If we want to avoid sharing a border with a failed state, we need to pull the plug on the money supply to Mexican drug cartels. The only way to effectively do that is to legalize every drug, regulate them all just like alcohol and tobacco, tax them, and make sure they are all produced or grown domestically so that all jobs, taxes, and profits stay here. Have regular businessmen–just like the tobacco, alchohol, and lifestyle pharmaceutical drug dealers in America–set up the new drug businesses. With no American money to support it, corruption and crime in Mexico will dry up overnight.