The “success” of the seizure that smells incomplete (and not just diesel)
Ah, the fight against huachicol. That national sport where everyone applauds the seizures, but no one asks about the detainees. The PAN deputy Federico Döring, with the skepticism of someone who has seen too many episodes of Narcos without a happy ending, described as “partial progress” the mega-operation that seized 15 million liters of stolen fuel in Coahuila. Bad? Zero detainees, frozen accounts of Juan Manuel “El Mono” Muñoz (yes, the gas station with Zeta connections that even nominated PT candidates) and, apparently, no one checked 129 convoys that passed through Reynosa as if they were Uber Eats.
The clear accounts (or rather, those that did not freeze)
“I celebrate the confiscation, but without sentences, or people behind bars or blocked assets, this seems more like a spoiler than an ending,” Döring said with the irony of someone who knows that in Mexico justice sometimes has more loopholes than a soap opera script. The legislator did not buy the story that such a quantity of diesel—enough to fill the Olympic swimming pool of your worst decisions—passed through customs as if it were hand luggage. “Seriously, no one in Tamaulipas saw 129 ferrotanks?” he questioned, while we imagine federal officials checking TikTok instead of trucks.
The megacoup, announced with great fanfare by Omar García Harfuch (the Secretary of Security who seems to live in an action thriller), arose after the arrest of “El Mono” in May. But here’s the plot twist: they released him, and although they tracked his gas stations as if they were influencers on vacation, the authorities forgot the basics: freezing assets. “In what parallel universe do you not insure the assets of a drug dealer?” Döring asked himself, probably while searching on Google for “signs of intelligent life in the government.”
The eternal déjà vu of impunity
To give more flavor to the drama, the deputy recalled that in April he requested information about detainees for another million-dollar seizure (18 million liters, because in this country huachicol is measured in units of “national scandal”). Spoiler: no one responded. And now, the script repeats itself: zero names of those involved, silence about bank accounts and the suspicion that, perhaps, some Morena officials prefer anonymity. “Could it be that they don’t want to burn their comrades?” Döring ironically said, while the audience applauded the black hole-style level of transparency.
The only thing that is clear is that, in this film, the bad guys remain unpunished. And while the networks are filled with memes of “Mono” Muñoz – who sounds more like a cartoon villain than a boss -, the message is clear: seizing without sentencing is like liking a complaint and thinking that you already did something. Oh, and the UIF (that institution that sometimes seems like a ghost) didn’t show up for the cast either.
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