It all starts at a key point along the way: gas stations. A growing number of Mexicans are reporting systematic robberies at highway gas stations, especially in San Luis Potosí, where these practices are repeated time and again.
According to testimonies circulating on social media, this is how they operate:
The bill trick: they tell you that you paid with a smaller denomination bill, even though you know perfectly well what you handed over.
Allegedly manipulated pumps: they charge you for a full tank or more, the gauge rises quickly, but no real gasoline enters the vehicle. In some cases, just a trickle, a symbolic 50 pesos.
Direct robberies: without explanation, without discussion, they simply take your money.
Many Mexicans point out that San Luis Potosí has become one of the most dangerous places in this scheme.
But the journey doesn’t end there… further on, checkpoints appear:
Checkpoints of various institutions
Federal, state, and municipal
National Guard
Inspections, documents demanded
Money that never returns
In Tamaulipas, Mexicans living abroad have been reporting similar extortion at checkpoints for years, where the pattern is always the same: threats, false accusations, and dispossession.
On social media, many agree on something unsettling:
These networks are not new
They have been operating within the system for years
But in recent years they have grown stronger
And they seem immune to the authorities, who, for many, appear complicit or absent
We’re not talking about petty theft. We’re talking about billions of pesos. Money that comes from the hard work of Mexicans living abroad. Money that, accumulated over years, represents an economic cancer that continues to grow.
For Mexicans living abroad, this isn’t about politics. It’s about working abroad. Saving every single peso. And to lose everything in minutes, right in front of those who should be caring and protecting you.
It’s 2025. Seven years since the transformation began. And the most painful question still hangs in the air:
How were these networks allowed to become so powerful?
Why do they seem untouchable?
How do you eradicate a cancer when those who should be stopping it… look the other way?
Silence won’t make it disappear. Naming it is the first step.
Source: samuelrazo
