Mexico’s state-controlled oil company announced this week that employees responsible for operating fuel-distribution pipelines will be subjected to confidence tests. The measure is being taken by Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in order to try to combat the surge in oil theft in recent years: Pemex’s sprawling network of pipelines is vulnerable to criminal gangs but the success of their illegal taps hinges on information supplied by rogue employees, who furnish them with the exact times fuel is going to pass through. The announcement comes after a week of violent clashes between the security forces and oil thieves, known as huachicoleros, in the central state of Puebla, leaving a death toll of 10.End of preview - This article contains approximately 906 words.
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