Mexican Gas Explosions Force Shutdowns- Topic: Oil and Gas News

MEXICO CITY — Honda, Hershey’s and other multinational companies temporarily shut down their factories in western Mexico on Wednesday after rebels attacked a key natural gas pipeline. The small, left-wing guerrilla group that claimed responsibility for the explosions issued a statement late Tuesday vowing to continue the attacks, while the Mexican government scrambled to increase security at “strategic installations” across Mexico. A communique in the name of a small, leftist rebel group, the ERP (People’s Revolutionary Army) , claimed responsibility Tuesday of the explosions, saying the guerrillas had planted explosives. The group that claimed responsibility for the explosions is the “military zone command of the People’s Revolutionary Army,” or EPR, a tiny rebel group that staged several armed attacks on government and police installations in southern Mexico in the 1990s, but was later weakened by internal divisions. read more

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