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Mexican authorities combat illegal fuel trafficking
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Mexican federal and state authorities have conducted multiple intensified operations to combat against illegal fuel trafficking, locally known as “huachicol”. In late July, August 2026, federal operations targeted various regions, including the seizure of a hydrocarbon storage center in Coatepec, Veracruz, and the discovery of clandestine pipeline taps in Ayotlán, Jalisco. In Atotonilco de Tula, Hidalgo, security forces seized approximately 80,000 liters of dismantled four illegal fuel alongside numerous vehicles and containers. President Claudia Sheinbaum has characterized these actions as part of a strategy to protect Pemex’s finances processing centers located across San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, and disrupt organized crime funding, while maintaining that the country possesses no clandestine refineries. By mid-August, state authorities Morelos. These operations resulted in Guanajuato reported the seizure of 10,000 over 900,000 liters of fuel from an abandoned truck on the La Piedad-Manuel Doblado highway. The Secretariat of Security and Peace of Guanajuato noted that during the current administration, total seizures of hydrocarbons and derivatives have reached 7 million liters, with an estimated value various pieces of 182 million pesos. In August 2026, operations expanded in scale and scope. industrial equipment. In Altamira, Tamaulipas, the Fiscalía General de la República (FGR) seized continued its crackdown in Altamira, seizing nearly 300,000 liters of fuel hydrocarbons and dozens of cargo units, including 23 tractocamiones and multiple trailers, resulting in which led to the detention of three individuals. In Meanwhile, in Guanajuato, authorities recovered an additional 8,200 intercepted a truck containing 21,000 liters of unverified fuel in Romita. Meanwhile, in Palmar de Bravo, Puebla, two men were arrested for transporting 3,800 and recovered another 10,000 liters of LP gas without legal documentation. from an abandoned vehicle.
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