The highways of the state of Puebla have become a constant danger for motorists traveling on them, whether they are private cars, cargo trucks, or passenger vehicles.
Day and night, truckers live under the constant threat of organized crime on the Mexico-Puebla highway. This vital highway has become a veritable route of terror.
Drivers not only face robberies and kidnappings, but now they must pay criminals a “right of way” (which is a form of extortion) to be able to travel.
According to the Confederation of Industrial Chambers (Concamin), losses due to insecurity on Mexican highways reach 15 million pesos daily, and each year up to 7 billion pesos fall into the hands of organized crime groups through robberies and extortion.
This year, the Association of Truck Drivers (Amotac) in Puebla has registered 20 kidnappings of drivers, two homicides, and more than 13 open cases for crimes against cargo transport.
Since 2019, when then-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador decided to eliminate the Federal Highway Police (Policía Federal de Caminos), the number of assaults, kidnappings, robberies, and homicides on highways throughout the country has skyrocketed.
Source: Azteca Noticias
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