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Two days after the explosion and the fire of a pipeline in Mexico that left at least 79 dead and 66 wounded, controversy swells. Could the tragedy have been avoided if the soldiers present on the spot had intervened? This is one of the questions that has been brewing Mexican opinion in recent days. The management of the army and the strategy of President Obrador are deeply questioned.
When last Friday 18 January the oil pipeline of Tlahuelilpan explodes , it's been two hours since the army located the leak.
Two hours during which 800 people will siphon gasoline, under the gaze of 25 soldiers, who according to several testimonies did not intervene other than by warning people of the risks incurred.
President Lopez Obrador preferred to round off the angles: " I fully support the behavior of the army. Many people say that the soldiers should have repressed people, but no, we do not extinguish a fire with more embers, we need solutions of substance. "
For the past two weeks, several pipelines have been closed to prevent theft, which has resulted in a shortage of fuel , and thus pushed people to punch even more pipelines to refuel.
Except on the other side, the army is sorely lacking in resources: only 5,000 soldiers are deployed today to monitor a 54,000-kilometer pipeline network.
The new Attorney General of the country, Alejandro Gertz, was in charge of the investigation. He in any case recalled that theft of fuel is punishable by 20 to 30 years imprisonment.