The challenge of the Gulf cartel in Tamaulipas: he dismantled the security cameras

In Reynosa tamaulipas, one of the most important cities on the Mexican border with the United States, suspected hitman of the Gulf Cartel They dismantled CCTV cameras installed by state authorities in various locations.

Criminals used hijacked SUVs and cargo vehicles to demolish several electric poles used to support the cameras.

The attacks were allegedly carried out on the orders of José Alfredo “N”, alias el “Calamardo”, alleged operator of the criminal organization. The surveillance triggered several major seizures and forced the Gulf cartel hosts to flee.

As documented, the Gulf cartel has set up its own underground network of surveillance cameras, which allow the criminal organization to know the movements of the police and military forces in the region. When the authorities find such cameras, they remove them, in the same way that cartel operators in the past have destroyed police surveillance cameras.

For years, the Gulf Cartel, a criminal organization made up of army deserters, infiltrated the energy sector.

According to the journalist and security expert, Oscar BalderasIn the Burgos Basin, the cartels infiltrated through a horror ploy, in which the subsidiaries were forced to pay their right to speak or otherwise they would be executed by those who claimed to be members of the cartel of the last letter or the Gulf.

In 2010, a report rocked terror in the industry: A businessman with energy services company Waterford was murdered for allegedly refusing to pay Los Zetas extortion money. Agree with Balderas, that same year Mexico began with a series of lawsuits against US companies for allegedly acquiring gas stolen from Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel..

The operating mode, revealed by the parapublic, it showed that the companies sent trucks full of water into the country and when they reached the gas stream, they unloaded them and met the hired killers, responsible for supplying them with gas.

This diversification of Mexican cartel operations continued over the next few years. In 2014, Spanish oil company Repsol He left the country because of the siege of criminal groups, which killed around 20 Pemex workers.

The culmination of a string of injuries from the Zetas and the Gulf cartel came in 2020, when the company Pantera Exploración y Producción requested an extension from the Mexican government for the exploration plan in the Burgos Basin, as they did not could not advance due to the threat of criminal organizations.

A sin Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Campeche and Tabasco These are states infiltrated by the mafia, even members of organized crime have established their residence there.

The panorama reflects the failure of strategies designed for the security of Pemex by foreign firms. In addition, various investigations have revealed that criminals have precise technical information on the location of pipelines, oil pipelines, gas pipelines, oil pipelines and the hydrocarbon transportation and distribution network, data that only the highest Pemex executives manipulate, as they are considered information. national security reserved.

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