The most outrageous part is that Roberto is a petroleum engineer. He studied to work in the industry, but today, according to his testimony, he lives amid a conflict against the state oil company itself to have his rights recognized as an affected landowner.
🗣️“I find myself spending the night inside the facilities because I need to safeguard my property, since it was invaded,” he declared.
🛢️Roberto accuses Pemex of not recognizing him as the owner, stating that they occupied his lands without permits or compensation and that groups calling themselves unions allegedly entered the property with violence.
🗣️“They practically barged in, beat up my brothers, and forced their way in through underhanded means,” he denounced.
And he concluded with a devastating phrase:
🗣️“Sadly, for me, that is what Pemex is: this dispossession, this vandalism, this theft.”
⚠️The case sparks even more outrage because, according to Roberto, if this had happened in another country, the owner of a land plot containing oil wouldn’t be fighting just to be heard.
🗣️“If I were on this land in Texas, in a United States county, I would already be a millionaire,” he said.
📍But in Tabasco, he claims, what he has received is not payment, respect, or justice, but threats.
🗣️“They came to threaten me again, saying they are going to kick me out the hard way,” he stated.
💔And faced with that, he dropped a sentence that should set off every alarm: “Here I am, alone, unarmed, and with the willingness to die standing up, defending what belongs to me.”
⏳Roberto asserts that the property has belonged to his family since 1989 and that he has already exhausted legal channels. He also says he will take legal action against those who have threatened him.
🥀“I am willing to die defending my land, because it has been my father’s property since 1989. If I have to die, I will die right here standing up. I will die defending my patrimony.”
🤬This Thursday, according to the report, a Pemex official went to the site but only told him that his case was already “under review.”
🤨Under review? A citizen denounces invasion, beatings, threats, dispossession, land occupation, oil machinery, and a lack of compensation… and the response is “it is under review”.
👉Pemex, Halliburton, and the authorities are requested to publicly clarify what permits they hold, what compensation was paid, who authorized the entry into the property, and who is accountable for the reported threats.
🛢️Because if a ranch has oil, that should not turn the owner into an obstacle.
🔥And if the State can enter a property, exploit it, and leave the owner alone, threatened, and without payment, then the State is using its power against a defenseless citizen.
👉Today it is Roberto, tomorrow it could be your property…
Source: mexicodailypost
