Mexico: Rebels Say Attack on Mexican Pipeline is Just the Beginning
July 12th, 2007Undefended, critical infrastructure…
Via: Dallas Morning News:
A shadowy leftist rebel group took responsibility Tuesday for a gas pipeline blast that shut down some industry in central Mexico, including two car assembly plants.
The Popular Revolutionary Army, or EPR for its initials in Spanish, said Tuesday’s explosion and two similar attacks on Pemex pipelines in Guanajuato state last week marked the beginning of a “national campaign of harassment against the interests of the oligarchy and this illegitimate government.”
President Felipe Calderón’s office issued a statement saying security was being reinforced at “strategic installations.”
Officials said no one was injured in Tuesday’s explosion; however, a Nissan plant in Aguascalientes and a Honda plant in Guadalajara were forced to close for lack of gas to produce electricity, local media reported.
this will get very interesting indeed.
Viva Zapatos!
(I left a lengthy, long winded comment below re confirmation of attack).
Yes, it is a beginning.
Ole!
Rebels Say They’re Behind Pipeline Blasts in Mexico
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/11/AR2007071102137.html
A series of pipeline explosions sharply reduced gas supplies in central Mexico and forced the country’s largest beer producer, as well as foreign-owned companies, to temporarily close factories or cut back production Wednesday.
A rebel group, the People’s Revolutionary Army, has asserted responsibility for the explosions at a key pipeline owned by Mexico’s national oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, in the state of Guanajuato last week and in the state of Queretaro on Tuesday. The group is demanding the release of two of its members, who it says were unfairly imprisoned during last year’s violent teacher protests in Oaxaca.
Mexico rebel group not seen a major security risk
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/12/AR2007071201447.html
A clandestine Mexican rebel group that said it blew up fuel pipelines as part of an anti-government campaign might strike again but does not pose a major national security threat, analysts say.
Mexico ramped up security around its oil industry and key parts of the capital after the Marxist-inspired Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) said it carried out pipeline blasts on Tuesday and last week and vowed to stage more attacks.
But analysts played down the threat from the group and said they saw little risk to strategic points such as oil export terminals and airports.
“Things have been intensifying. The EPR shouldn’t be underestimated,” said Jorge Lofredo, a political scientist who edits a Web site that hosts communiques from rebel groups.
“I don’t think this is the end of it.”