The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has become a thorny issue for the presidential environment and, ultimately, for the entire ruling party. The hardest line within the 'obradorismo' movement has begun to carry out covert maneuvers in the press to blame the head of Pemex Logistics, Israel Benitez, for the spill. Benitez is responsible for the oil company's pipelines and is a close confidant of the Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch. Those close to García Harfuch indicate that the secretary tried to remove Benitez from the oil company, where he designed the plan to prevent hydrocarbon theft, which had grown again at the end of Andrés Manuel López Obrador's six-year term. However, the presidential palace requested that Benitez continue to lead this critical infrastructure. The movement itself reveals two very uncomfortable facts: the spill is, in any case, Pemex's responsibility, and the origin would be a problem with the pipelines, not an accident of vessels, as the official version defends. Those who distrust García Harfuch for the 2030 election would like to use this incident as a tool to undermine the secretary, but they are already hesitant to make any moves for fear of a devastating accusation from the United States. Swarm operations, visa revocations, explosive leaks—in the hardest line of the obradorismo movement, the idea is crystallizing that the Secretary of Security could be equated with the most visible left-wing force against the drug trade and organized crime. The year began with very delicate but present warnings to the most fervent and distant propagandists from García Harfuch, such as Jesús Ramírez, accused of doing politics with a drug trafficker, Alejandro Páez Varela, who cannot justify his fabulous fortune, and this week, Jenaro Villamil, discredited in the morning press conference itself. On the other hand, the thesis that ships caused the spill could also be complicated for the obradorismo movement, especially if it were proven that the spill was the responsibility of a vessel owned by the company Diavaz, as has begun to be mentioned on social networks. Diavaz is a company very close to Octavio Romero and one that did not fare poorly during the management of Pemex by the current champion of social housing.
