The EPR has been busy once again
i posted back in mid-july on the Ejército Popular Revolucionario [EPR], the little-known group that's blowing up Mexican natural gas pipelines... it looks like they may have been at it again...
In an apparent case of politically motivated sabotage, six explosions blew apart oil and natural gas pipelines operated by Mexico's Pemex state oil and gas monopoly early Monday in Veracruz and Tlaxcala states, causing fires and forcing the evacuation of 15,000 people from surrounding towns.
The blasts forced Pemex to shut down at least four affected pipelines and prompted federal authorities to close two major roads. No injuries were reported.
Mexico is the world's sixth-largest oil producer and a major supplier of petroleum to the U.S. The outages drove the price of oil above $78 a barrel in futures trading Monday.
Monday's attacks occurred two months after a leftist guerrilla group, the Popular Revolutionary Army, known by its Spanish initials EPR, took responsibility for carrying out four similar bomb attacks on Pemex pipelines and a switching station in the central states of Queretaro and Guanajuato.
these people obviously know what kind of destructive action is most effective at disrupting not only mexican but also the global economy...
Labels: Ejército Popular Revolucionario, Mexico, oil pipelines, oil prices, PDPR-EPR
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posted by profmarcus at
9/11/2007
