Reuters is omitting the technicians’ names, details of where they work and most names of cartels they encounter for the workers’ protection. Two technicians shared texts they exchanged with colleagues regarding on-the-job run-ins with organized crime at the cell towers, and one of them shared a photo of an illicit device he discovered in the course of his work. The incidents the 12 workers recounted occurred between 2015 and 2020 in several Mexican states.
A spokesman for America Movil and Telesites declined to comment. Axtel, which sold some of its telecom towers in 2017, said it had not received any reports of incidents on its remaining infrastructure. AT&T said that “under no circumstances” does it “tolerate or authorize payments outside of those established by law.”
Stories like this are unfolding in industries across Mexico as criminal groups branch out far beyond drugs. Cartels have siphoned millions of dollars’ worth of fuel from Mexican state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos or Pemex in recent years; they steal cargo and pilfer lumber. The tentacles of organized crime extend even into Mexico’s avocado growing regions, where gangs extort farmers and hijack loads of the green fruit.
“We must continue confronting organized crime... There is no longer protection for anyone, as there was before,” Lopez Obrador said in early June. “We are committed to achieving peace and we have made progress in combating, in reducing, crime.”Radios are an indispensable tool for cartels and part of their lore. One classic narco-ballad or “corrido” celebrating the notorious Zetas syndicate depicts members speaking over their two-way handsets.
Gangs typically don’t bother with camouflage. The Zetas are particularly brash, Craine said. He recalled seeing coolers emblazoned with their logo: the letter Z. A former engineer for Huawei Technologies Co, the Chinese telecom vendor, told Reuters that one of the workers he supervised sent him a photo of a device on a Telesites tower in early 2018 with a sign that read: “This antenna belongs to the Zetas. If any problems arise, please call…,” followed by a phone number.
The IFT said it did not know whether Sanchez Henkel had discussed the issue with companies during his time in government. ANATEL CEO Gabriel Szekely said he had no more information to provide on the phenomenon. He told the Mexican newspaper Reforma in 2018 it was clear that criminal groups were capitalizing on what companies had built.
This has been happening for years?! Why worry now? Cartels have been kidnapping young IT professionals to help them build their own networks, but it didn’t Am. companies so nothing to see right?
Just a matter of time, before South African criminal 'entrepreneurs' start doing this.
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