Introduction
摘要
This investigation focuses on explaining one of the most recent and relevant black marketsblack markets of MexicoMexico: fuel traffickingfuel trafficking. This illegal enterprise has shown a global presence from North to South America, from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe, and from Southeast Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa (Ralby in Downstream Oil Theft: Global Modalities, Trends and Remedies, 1–117. Atlantic Council Global Energy Centre, 2017, January). The theft and illegal commercialization of fuels has become a lucrative market for various criminal agents involved in other illicit extractiveextractive industries (rare minerals, timber, gold).