Mexico sends out armed forces to protect pipelines
Mexico continues to suffer from fuel shortages as the government doubles down on its anti-theft campaign by sending 4,000 soldiers to guard 1,600km of pipelines.
The shortages are caused by a strategy of closing pipelines when pressure fluctuations are registered and replacing supplies by tank trucks, leading to a war of attrition with fuel thieves deprived of income.
Shortages have been reported in nine states, mostly in the country's high-demand central region, including Mexico City where government officials have said that 103 of 400 gas stations were having supply problems.
Meanwhile political pressures are mounting with Mexico's human rights commission (CNDH) asking the government to guarantee supplies of gasoline and opposition lawmakers demanding that pipelines be reopened. However, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that pipelines would not be reopened and did not give a date for when service would return to normal.
Mexico's largest association of service stations, Onexpo, said that it expects service to be back to normal next week, rather than this Friday as it said previously. According to Onexpo, further shortages were caused by panic buying of gasoline.
According to the government, NOC Pemex lost US$3bn to fuel theft in 2018, the equivalent of 5% of Mexico's total gasoline and diesel consumption.
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