By “El Huaso” for Borderland Beat
Across Mexico, thousands of farmers and truckers are blocking highways today to protest insecurity, rising fuel prices, and poor conditions of farmers. Security along Mexico’s highways has deteriorated in recent years due to carjackings, disappearances, and rampant cargo theft.
The highway blockades, scheduled for April 6, are being organized by the National Association of Transport Drivers (ANTAC) and the National Front for the Rescue of the Mexican Field (FNRCM). Highways are reportedly blocked in more than 20 of Mexico’s 32 states.
Nationwide strikes and highway blockades have become a common protest tactic in Mexico in recent years, where threats to truckers and other motorists have increased. Mexicans consistently rank highways as one of the places where they feel most unsafe. Cargo transport drivers are particularly at risk. Around 40 cargo trucks are hijacked across Mexico every day, with 80% of the hijackings including violence.
Stolen tools found at CSRL cargo theft safehouse following crackdown on fuel theft in Mexico.
Criminals, often linked to large cartels, will ambush cargo truck drivers on rural highways. Sometimes, the criminals use tirespikes or lasers to force the drivers to stop. Other times, the criminals will box the drivers in with vehicles and force the drivers out at gunpoint. The hijacked truck is taken to a rural stash house before the goods are ransomed back, or sold at markets.
Sources: NMas Noticias, Prensa Momento, Envipe 2025, El Universal, “Cargo Theft in the Transportation Sector: A Comparative Analysis of Texas and Mexico” by Nathan Jones
White Appreciated Boy Here- People with trigger fingers are more developed than hybrid exotic mutations with their frontal lobes..on here…however…in South America…all these smears across the pavement must be the follow up from the “shittier day” zipperheads flying off their mopeds…..save a life or two….and quit with the “narco” culture celebration…
ReplyDeletePlease stop writing your bollocks on here.....get a life pal .!!!!!!!
DeleteSeriously need to lay off sniffing solvents
DeleteThere is a very simple solution to this. Have a couple of armed bodyguards travel along with the truck driver. Allow these bodyguards to carry high caliber weapons. Making the trailer box humanly unable to open would also help. Installing a pass code in the rear door that only the shipper and receiving warehouses would know. The driver would not know the pass code. Doing this would drop the number of these incidents dramatically. Nuff Said!!!
ReplyDeleteOr get the driver tortured and killed
DeleteQue le entren hal Zocalo y que viyan mandando toda esa basura de gobierno que no avanso la hente en mente. Este pinche pedo no es de jugar.
ReplyDeleteCorruption is built into Mexico's culture, highway cops were disbanded bc even the "good guys" were fucking their own ppl, mexico is doomed forever until the ppl show balls n take back their OWN country, but alas, "it's every mf for himself" stupidos!
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