Mexico says it’s cracking down on fuel theft and critics say it underscores the depth of the problem
MexICO CITY (AP) – Mexico’s senior prosecutor said in a statement on Sunday that the government plans to order the arrest of people, including the government officials, including government officials, including the government’s fuel theft networks between Mexico and the United States.
Mexican government on Saturday Arrest of Senior Mexican Navy OfficerIt is related to the former president of the Mexican Navy. He was arrested in Northern Mexico with 13 officials and business leaders in connection with a large fuel seizure.
Mexican Prosecutor’s Office President Alejandro Gertz Manero and other officials, the arrest is a sign that the government was broken on fuel theft known as Huachicol in Mexico. Critics say it’s just a sign of the depth of the problem.
The detention comes only a few days after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Mexico to discuss security problems and pressures the Mexican government to press the theft of fuel that slowly cover the pockets of Mexico cartels.
Fuel theft is an important problem in the Latin American country, and the state’s oil company Pemex cost $ 3.8 billion in just five years. Fuel is usually touched illegally in Mexico and is re -sold, or cheaper gasoline or diesel is purchased in US border states such as Texas and smuggling in Mexico Import taxes.
Gertz Manero and Mexico’s Security Secretary Omar García Harduch claimed that they were “isolated cases ve in marine on Sunday and that they had escaped questions about the depth of fuel theft networks within the government.
The observers have long been interpreted that a great corruption is necessary to make crime networks so successful. Mexican Security Analyst David Saucedo confirmed these doubts that 14 people have been fueled by the arrest of 14 people and the wider levels of corruption in the Mexican government and their businesses.
“Huachicol networks require political, military and police protection at a level, SA said Saucedo.
Saucedo added that only under the pressure of Rubio, he added that the Mexican government has begun to break the theft more aggressively.
Mexico’s security secretary, Omar García Harduch, Mexican security officials, “A handful of isolated people do not mean that they act on behalf of a respectable institution,” he argued.
