MEXICO CITY. – The huachicoleros returned for their jurisdiction in Puebla, one of the entities hardest hit by the theft of fuel from Pemex in recent years and where, this year, a 7 percent increase in localized clandestine intakes is reported, but there are also increase in Edomex, Tlaxcala, Baja California, Michoacán and Nuevo León.
From January to July of this year, that entity governed by the Morenista Miguel Barbosa, registered a monthly average of 169 clandestine intakes to hydrocarbon pipelines (gasoline or diesel), the highest reported in this federal Administration.
In 2019, the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador achieved with the anti-Huachicol strategy a reduction (compared to 2018) of just 1.74 percent, with 153 clandestine shots per month.
However, by 2020 the phenomenon increased by 3.27 percent, going to 158 pickets on a monthly average.
For the period January-July of this year, andThe huachicol in Puebla increased by 7 percent, with 169 illegal takeings per month, according to official company figures.
This figure is higher than that reported in 2016 in the entity, when Puebla was the leader of picketing Pemex hydrocarbon pipelines to extract hydrocarbons, with 127 clandestine intakes on a monthly average.
In 2017, the federal government, then in charge of the PRI Enrique Peña Nieto, undertook an offensive against the criminals of the Red Triangle, and among other actions, a confrontation was reported in May of that year. in Palmar de Bravo, a community located in the central-eastern part of Puebla, with a balance of four dead soldiers and 12 injured.
The clandestine outlets fell in the state in that year to 119 on a monthly average.
PBut for 2018, Pemex once again registered an increase in Puebla, with 172 monthly pickets of its pipelines.
Although several Puebla mayors from various parties have been accused of complicity with the huachicoleros, they were not punished.
At the national level, a decrease of 4.97 percent is reported in the discovery of clandestine intakes of hydrocarbons; However, states such as Puebla registered an increase 7 percent; Edomex, 22 percent; Tlaxcala, 177 percent; Baja California, 60 percent; Michoacán, 75 percent, and NL, 41 percent, according to official Pemex figures.
