Oil theft is becoming one of Mexico's most lucrative criminal businesses Violent battles between rival criminal groups vying for control over Mexico’s lucrative oil theft business left more than 50 people dead over the span of five days, highlighting the deadly consequences of the trade’s emergence as one of the country’s most prized illicit economies.
At least 54 individuals were killed as a result of violent confrontations between competing criminal groups over control of Mexico’s booming oil theft business in the central state of Guanajuato during a five-day period at the end of September . . .
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