Mexico’s military have taken control over 58 key fuel installations in the country, including refineries, upon orders by new President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has vowed to fight corruption and fuel theft within and outside state-run energy company Pemex. Lopez Obrador unveiled a plan on Thursday to increase the presence of military and the use of the army in fighting rampant fuel theft that has been costing Mexico’s state firm Pemex billions of dollars annually. According to Pemex’s own estimates , the losses from fuel theft over the past three years have reached US$7.5 billion (147 billion Mexican pesos). According to Lopez Obrador, authorities are also involved in widespread fuel theft. “This is the theft of national assets, of public funds, of money that belongs to all Mexicans,” Reuters quoted Lopez Obrador as saying at a regular news conference on Thursday. On Friday, the Mexican army took control […]