Breakdown of Law and Order in Mexico

The Huachicolero Toll Last Year

La Polaka Reports 6000 gallons of stolen gas found on buses used to transport workers to maquila plants

 

From Diario:  (click here for story)  

 

 The theft of gasoline by huachicoleros in the Juárez-Chihuahua and the Chihuahua-Gomez (Durango) pipelines last year amounted to about $20 million (US) dollars per month, according to a newly released inter-agency official report.  This amounts to about 140,000 barrels of oil per month or about 6 million gallons for the year.  Authorities were unable to calculate how much was stolen from the El Paso-Juarez pipeline, although they know there have been thefts in that pipeline. 

 

While the clandestine perforation of pipelines has been going on for at least six years, 2018 produced a dramatic increase, creating gasoline shortages at many gas stations in many areas of the country.   In 2013 41 illegal perforations were detected by Pemex in these pipelines.  In 2017 85 illegal perforations were detected, and in the first ten months of 2018 112 "tomas" were detected.

La Polaka (click here for story) reports authorities raided a lot used to park buses and other transportation vehicles used to carry maquila workers to and from work, finding 25,000 liters (about 6000 gallons) of stolen gas, enough to service nearly 100 vehicles.