The cheapest petrol from Mexico is sold in Chiapas and imported from Guatemala

The offer is attractive. "16 pesos a liter of gasoline", reads on the panels adorning the drums stacked in the posts of the section of road Border Los Altos, Chiapas.

The, the sale of hydrocarbons costs 3.78 pesos cheaper than at the service stations (About 21 pesos) For this reason, cargo ships, private cars and even buses make a mandatory stop.

With a funnel attached to a short hose, the least expensive gasoline of the country, imported from Guatemala, is filtered little by little.

The local business started to strengthen in early 2019, in parallel with the agents against fuel theft implemented by the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in the central zone of the country.

According to locals, they live in constant fear of an explosion as it occurred in Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, where the theft of gas caused a tragedy that killed 135 people.

"Neither the army nor the army are confusing with us, the peasant organizations of this region support us, the trade has always existed although now more," said a man from the region. business in Reforma.

Accounts indicate that at least three times a week, Chiapaneans are moving to Guatemala, region where the liter of fuel is sold at 15.30 pesos.

Reforma counted on the curved road about 25 improvised companies, which dodged the six gas stations casually from Petróleos Mexicanos in the zone.

An opposite case is produced in Monterrey, where the collective representatives filed an application for amparo against Regulatory Commission for Energy (CRE) in order to be fueled with the same quality as that provided in the Valley of Mexico and the Guadalajara metropolitan area.

Samuel Sepúlveda, Senator of Movimiento Ciudadano (MC) said that the Commission is omitted in the application of his rule and discriminates against the Monterrey metropolitan area because it allows to market fuels of category C and non AA as in the CDMX.

The C-hydrocarbon clbad, which produces the Cadereyta refinery, contains more sulfur than the "chilanga" gas.