Mexico Trucker Online

MEXICO CITY — With the government finding it difficult to guard much of the country’s petroleum pipeline network, preventing further attacks on it depends upon a national security apparatus that analysts warn may not be up to the task. Once a brutally efficient weapon of the one-party regime that ruled for most of the 20th century, Mexico’s domestic intelligence service has been weakened over the past decade by budget cuts, personnel purges and the shifting priorities of a more democratic society, the analysts say.

Some of the more experienced spymasters have been cashiered or farmed out to state and federal agencies.

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