The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), spoke about the events that took place on the afternoon of Wednesday, January 11, in the municipality of Cuautepec, in the state of Hidalgo, where a confrontation between the military and civilians left 4 dead and multiple wounded.
Huachicoleros from Cuautepec attacked the military and Pemex workers; there are at least 16 injured
Dozens of hooded men attacked parastatal personnel who were repairing a leaking pipeline
“We are very concerned because the population is getting involved”, he said in reference to the crime of “huachicol”, which is the way fuel theft is known in Mexico.
Likewise, the president warned yesterday that in Hidalgo there has been a “resumption of the old gasoline theft activities”, which, he said, are increasing.
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He also urged the population not to support these “completely criminal” actions. There is no justification that because of poverty, because there is great need, because they are neglected, then they have to participate in illegal acts. No. It is a group, they are organized crime groups that mislead the residents”.
“That they help us in this, so that what happened in Tlahuelilpan does not happen again., which was very painful. Many people lost their lives,” asked López Obrador.
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He explained that although said crime had not occurred with such regularity, “now in Hidalgo there are already two, three occasions, because there were some arrests of bosses, allegedly responsible for managing the illegal sale of fuel”, he recalled.
The Hidalgo government confirmed as a result of the violent events that occurred in Cuautepec Hidalgo, in the Tulancingo Valley, four people who participated died and another nine were injured (six are alleged huachicoleros and three are Pemex workers).
Four units were also confiscated and the Attorney General’s Office initiated eight investigation folders.
The events occurred when a group of approximately 150 people, according to reports, attacked Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) personnel who had come to the town of “La Estación”. to repair a clandestine intake that leaked fuel and represented a high risk of explosion for the inhabitants.
However, they were surprised by dozens of hooded peopleaboard pick up vehicles, to attack them with shots.
A few minutes later elements of the Mexican Army to help the workers of the parastatal company. But the military were also attacked.
As a preventive security measure, the state government ssuspended public transport in the municipality, in addition to ordered the eviction of shops and schools in the towns of Guadalupe Victoria, Almoloya, Santa Rita and the downtown area of Cuautepec.
At 5:00 p.m., it was reported that the Army installed military posts both in the La Estación community and in its surroundings to control the situation.
During 2022, Hidalgo closed with 4,935 clandestine taps from groups of huachicoleros to Pemex pipelines and endorsed, for the fifth consecutive year, the first national place as the most milked state in the country. According to data from the Eighteenth Military Zone provided by the parastatal, through these perforations to the valves 632 thousand 912.92 barrels of fuel were stolen.
Cuautepec, located in the Tulancingo Valley, which borders the northern sierra of Puebla, It was the municipality that recorded the most intakes in the year, not only in the state, but throughout the country, with thousand 133. Through these, the huachicoleros stole 90 thousand 154 barrels of fuel.
In this municipality where the Sedena locates the huachicol cells known as “The Marines”; The group of “The Gabo”led by Gabriel Rodríguez Hernández, and those led by Emilio Campillo Batalla, “La Marrana”and Gerardo Olmedo Arista, “The Cochiloco”former mayor of this demarcation from 2012 to 2016, .
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