Name: 墨西哥致命的燃料盜竊案已失去控制 (Mexico's Deadly Fuel Thefts Are Out of Control)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:54:06.000Z
Duration: 9 min 26 s
Description: 【看影片學英語】數萬部 YouTube 影片，搭配英漢字典即點即查，輕鬆掌握單字發音與用法，長久累積看電影不必再看字幕。

at a fatal gas line explosion in Mexico."

had been ruptured by suspected oil thieves."

they were throwing gasoline on top of each other.

as soldiers sent to guard the pipeline looked on

The fight against the illegal theft of fuel

I wrote the story about Mexico's biggest pipeline explosion.

but the final death toll, as it were, is 134.

Now in the field where the irrigation trench was

framed by an old tree which was scorched in the blast

Almost every day, relatives of the victims go there.

They sit on little plastic benches or wooden crates.

the people who are at the bottom of the tree,

looking to take advantage of an opportunity.

The scale of oil theft in Mexico is enormous.

The state loses 3 billion US dollars a year.

Huachicolero, which is the illegal siphoning

has now become something which is far more organized.

are now branching into this sale of oil theft.

because you don't need to transport drugs across borders.

different types of police in different countries.

The corruption inside the big petrol giant,

in this case Petróleos Mexicanos, Pemex, is rampant.

And so it's quite easy to pay off workers inside,

and then sell it domestically on the black market.

Pemex is one of the biggest oil companies in the world.

For a long time it was considered a cash cow

as the most important institution that the country had.

that around 80 percent of the tomas clandestinas

and the fuel robberies that take place in Mexico

are organized in some way by insiders in Pemex.

is that they would have a link inside Pemex

who would tell them through which pipeline a certain,

is running and what time and what the pressure is.

They would then go down to the specific pipeline

between one or two meters below the ground.

Then would perforate it with a high-powered drill.

Then a professional solderer would come in

字幕列表影片播放

墨西哥致命的燃料盜竊案已失去控制 (Mexico's Deadly Fuel Thefts Are Out of Control)

sort

essentially

matter

completely