Second Pemex Attack Rocks Mexico "at six different sites affecting 12 pipelines"

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Second Pemex Attack Rocks Mexico
Two months later, more pipeline explosions disrupt the state-owned oil monopoly. No one was injured, but businesses from VW to Kellogg were hurt
by Eliza Barclay
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/sep2007/gb20070911_747279.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_global+business


Mexico has long been immune to the armed strife that has plagued Colombia and other parts of Latin America. This stability has meant a lot to the U.S., which looks to Mexico as a source of manufactured goods and oil.

But the Sept. 10 incident in the state of Veracruz underscores potential fragility in Mexico. For the second time in two months, vandals attacked oil and gas pipelines belonging to Mexico's state-owned oil monopoly, Petroleos Mexicanos, crippling industry throughout the country.

Early in the morning, the company, known as Pemex, detected a change in pressure on one line in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz. Soon afterward, explosions went off at six different sites affecting 12 pipelines, mostly in Veracruz and the state of Tlaxcala. Some 15,000 people from nearby towns were forced to evacuate, .....

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Guerrilla group claims it is behind Mexico blasts
By DUDLEY ALTHAUS - Houston Chronicle Mexico City Bureau
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5126942.html

Hundreds of plants affected

MEXICO CITY — A small guerrilla group took responsibility Tuesday for attacks on oil and gas pipelines that forced factories across the country to scale back or close for lack of energy supplies.

A communique sent to Mexican media from the People's Revolutionary Army, or EPR, said the attacks were intended to force the release of two of the group's leaders, whom the rebels believe are held by President Felipe Calderon's government.

"Our political-military action will not stop until our disappeared/detained comrades are presented alive," said the communique signed by the EPR's "General Command."

Demands for release of the two men followed similar attacks in central Mexico in July