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They Operated Criminals, Their Own Refinery!

Summary by El Diario
Illegal fuel trafficking and impunity are so lucrative in Tamaulipas that organized crime can build its own refineries. The Eighth Military Zone, based in Reynosa, revealed yesterday the seizure of a property in this border town that had infrastructure for processing, storage and transportation of gasoline and diesel, an unprecedented fact in Tamaulipas. z A complex with infrastructure to produce illegal gasoline and diesel was secured in a depo…

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The seizure carried out in Reynosa by the Attorney General's Office has an estimated value of 120 million pesos. No arrests have yet been confirmed in connection with the discovery.

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The FGR secured a second alleged clandestine mini-refinery in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, where it found more than 109 thousand liters of hydrocarbons.

·Mexico
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Illegal fuel trafficking and impunity are so lucrative in Tamaulipas that organized crime can build its own refineries. The Eighth Military Zone, based in Reynosa, revealed yesterday the seizure of a property in this border town that had infrastructure for processing, storage and transportation of gasoline and diesel, an unprecedented fact in Tamaulipas. z A complex with infrastructure to produce illegal gasoline and diesel was secured in a depo…

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Security elements secured a clandestine refinery in Tamaulipas, where millions of litres of hydrocarbon were located at the disposal of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR).The finding was made thanks to an operation in Reynosa and, in addition to the millions of liters of hydrocarbon, were also assured: TanksPipasTracto TrucksMotobombsProcessing equipmentThey secure clandestine refinery with more than 3 million liters of hyd…

Just over a year ago, at the end of March 2025, federal forces carried out the confiscation of 10 million litres of illegal diesel in the port of Altamira, Tamaulipas. The fuel was stored at the premises of a freight company and had arrived on board a ship from Texas, through an entrepreneur linked to the local political class, Roberto Blanco Cantu or Roberto Brown, alias El Señor de los Buques.

·Guanajuato, Mexico
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Reynosa's is not the first huachi-refinería to appear, but it is the first to which the 4T government accepts that it exists and confiscates the fuel. That is, it intervenes its facilities and paralyzes its illegal and multimillion dollar operation.

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Uniradio Informa broke the news on Friday, July 24, 2026.
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