A Gas Heist Gone Wrong
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A Gas Heist Gone Wrong
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Re: A Gas Heist Gone Wrong
#2There was an article recently about how the drug cartels in Mexico pivoted into stealing gas. Much easier and less risky than drug trafficking.
This is why ending the war on drugs in US will not improve the Mexico violence problem much.
Re: A Gas Heist Gone Wrong
#3There was an article recently about how the drug cartels in Mexico pivoted into stealing gas. Much easier and less risky than drug trafficking. This is why ending the war on drugs in US will not improve the Mexico violence problem much.
the war on drugs should have been aborted years ago. If that had been done, there would not be any gangs blowing up pipelines today.
Re: A Gas Heist Gone Wrong
#4There was an article recently about how the drug cartels in Mexico pivoted into stealing gas. Much easier and less risky than drug trafficking. This is why ending the war on drugs in US will not improve the Mexico violence problem much.
the war on drugs should have been aborted years ago. If that had been done, there would not be any gangs blowing up pipelines today.
We haven’t fought any drug wars in Venezuela, and they have routine gas theft, including tanker truck hijackings. It sounds more like economic causes than “the US did it!”
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#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
the war on drugs should have been aborted years ago. If that had been done, there would not be any gangs blowing up pipelines today.
We haven’t fought any drug wars in Venezuela, and they have routine gas theft, including tanker truck hijackings. It sounds more like economic causes than “the US did it!”
Gas theft is rampant in a number of countries that are not meaningfully part of the US war on drugs as they are not on shipping / growing routes.
While less critical than the injuries, there is often significant environmental impact in the cruder cases of pipeline theft. There also ends up being some pretty bad behavior by the private security / mercenaries hired to try and protect some of the infrastructure.
Clean goverment, effective law enforcement, pro-social behaviors and economic improvements etc all might reduce some of these issues.
Re: A Gas Heist Gone Wrong
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
the war on drugs should have been aborted years ago. If that had been done, there would not be any gangs blowing up pipelines today.
We haven’t fought any drug wars in Venezuela, and they have routine gas theft, including tanker truck hijackings. It sounds more like economic causes than “the US did it!”
And we certainly have never interfered in any economic sense in Venezuela ... hold on, my producer is telling me that this is incorrect.
Re: A Gas Heist Gone Wrong
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
the war on drugs should have been aborted years ago. If that had been done, there would not be any gangs blowing up pipelines today.
We haven’t fought any drug wars in Venezuela, and they have routine gas theft, including tanker truck hijackings. It sounds more like economic causes than “the US did it!”
Venezuela is a narco state[0], but it wont be till this is in every media outlet that anything will be done about it.
[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/17/venezuelan-vic...
Re: A Gas Heist Gone Wrong
#8This is what happens when you take a story, in this case gangs and cartels stealing gasoline from pipelines, and add a human interest element that has nothing to do with the story. In this case, that is a group of locals taking gas spewing from a broken pipeline and being killed or injured by the explosion.
Re: A Gas Heist Gone Wrong
#9This is what happens when you take a story, in this case gangs and cartels stealing gasoline from pipelines, and add a human interest element that has nothing to do with the story. In this case, that is a group of locals taking gas spewing from a broken pipeline and being killed or injured by the explosion.
I'm pretty sure the story here is how 137 people died in a gas explosion in Mexico (plus probably hundreds injured for life), including some backstory as to why that explosion happened.
> The Mendoza sisters, however, say seeking out a guilty party is a low priority for them, at least for now. They’re trying to survive the consequences of the fire and get used to the idea of being alone in Hidalgo.
Re: A Gas Heist Gone Wrong
#10This is what happens when you take a story, in this case gangs and cartels stealing gasoline from pipelines, and add a human interest element that has nothing to do with the story. In this case, that is a group of locals taking gas spewing from a broken pipeline and being killed or injured by the explosion.
I'm not sure I understand the point you're making?