Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat from
Vanguardia
"Triangle of
Guanajuato" is formed by joining the Celaya-Salamanca-Irapuato-León
corridor, which extends to Los Apaseos, adjacent to Querétaro, through which run the Pipelines of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex).
Translated for Borderland Beat by "Cruz"
The Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel and Jalisco New
Generation Cartel dispute over the area; this dispute has resulted in, from January to
August more than 671 people have been executed in 6 townships
The refinery
"Antonio M. Amor" in Salamanca, Guanajuato, is stuck in the
crossfire.
2 criminal entities
fight over control of the company, as well as the 5 poly ducts that supply
gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and gas to the regions of Jalisco, Aguascalientes,
Michoacan, and Queretaro-San Luis Potosi.
From January to August
660 were executed in Salamanca and the 5 towns that the ducts pass through. In
the entire state of Guanajuato, from January to August of this year, 1,671
homicides have been reported, 244 of them just last month.
In fact, in the last
year, in Salamanca, a dozen police commanders and operational staff of the
refinery have been executed, amongst them an ex-military that was Chief of
Physical Security for Pemex, 2 superintendents, 2 flow controllers, and an
engineer last Thursday.
Working in that area is
the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel (linked to the Gulf Cartel) and Jalisco New
Generation Cartel.
A source from Military
Region 12 with headquarters in Irapuato revealed that the superintendents of
the refinery are extorted and threatened for the control in the flow of
hydrocarbons.