The huachicol theater has a new act in Yucatán
And this time, the setting was a property next to the Mérida-Valladolid highway, in the municipality of Seyé. There, soldiers and the National Guard staged a scene that is repeated with disturbing frequency.
We know the script: a clandestine warehouse, equipment to extract fuel and hundreds of thousands of liters of hydrocarbons ready to feed a black market that is bleeding the country. The loot this time was overwhelming.
The commands of the X Military Region and the 32nd. Military Zone reported that they seized 1 property, 338,610 liters of hydrocarbon, 2 trailers, as well as various materials and equipment for illegal extraction.
Those figures are not just numbers. They are the volume of a clandestine industry that operates in broad daylight. More than three hundred and thirty thousand liters. Imagine the queue of tankers needed to move that.
The most revealing—and worrying—is in the last line of the official statement: “This is not the first time that ‘huachicol’ wineries have been detected in Yucatan.” There is the key.
This is not an isolated blow. It is the symptom of an entrenched network. Each operation like this is like catching an actor on stage, but the entire theater continues to function behind the scenes.
The seized material is now in the hands of the authorities to “determine its legal status.” In other words, the long legal process begins while the true owners of the business are probably already setting up the next function in another municipality.
My father was right: politics—and security—are lived concretely. This affects the price you pay to fill your tank, the safety of the roads and the resources the country lacks. It is not distant theater; It is the daily drama that we all pay for.
