The ghost of fracking has sown confusion and annoyance in the communities of the Huasteca of Potosí, Hidalgo and Veracruz, where they warn that it is hidden behind the far-fetched term of “exploration of deposits of complex geology” mentioned in the Pemex Strategic Plan 2025-2030, and to counteract it they have already sent letters and petitions to the Chamber of Deputies, the state government and the Executive Branch.
As a result of the meetings they have held, the indigenous communities of those three states, which would possibly be affected if the use of the frackinga legal route begins to take shape that would include the request for protection and, where appropriate, a temporary suspension.
The new Judicial Branch, headed by an indigenous minister, Hugo Aguilar, would receive one of the first resources framed in the new Amparo Law, with indigenous communities as affected. Why is it not presented yet?, according to sources consulted by this column, because there is still no act of authority to challenge.
All the mobilizations have been inclined, for now, to fight against the possible use of fracking which, if carried out, according to environmental organizations in the area, would affect the underground rivers of the three mentioned states. For now, the meetings have focused on issuing messages to the President so that this technique so questioned by environmentalists is not used, and to the Legislative Branch to request the support of its legislators.
But a new problem has arisen: although they are still few and not so strident, complaints have begun to appear of pressure from alleged organized crime groups for the owners of these lands to sell them to them. The areas of this sale, they tell us, are in the areas where the exploration and location of fuel, mainly gas, will possibly occur. What is the intention of these forced property sales? To date, it is unknown.
That is why Pemex’s plan to increase production must be accompanied by a security plan that includes the fight against criminal groups that have become millionaires from fuel theft and extortion, even more so when a portion of private investment is contemplated.
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It separates itself from Black Block
Facundo Jiménez Pérez, former professor at CCH Sur, sent a letter to the editorial office of 24 HOURS where he denies links with the “hooded men” who have carried out violent acts inside and outside the National University. He acknowledges that he was dismissed from the school, as mentioned in the column titled The Black Block moves from the UNAMpublished last October 10 on the website of this medium, although he attributes the termination of his contract to a “political slogan.”
On October 10, it was published in this column that his name appears in information related to the activities of hooded people who call themselves Black Block and who have been protagonists in attacks on university infrastructure, such as the MUAC and the Tlatelolco Cultural Center, which the authorities of the National University have handed over to the capital’s prosecutor’s office.
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