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[Prof.Gringo]

"At least 28 people were killed, 13 of them children, in a disaster authorities blamed on oil thieves. At least 52 people were hurt and 84 remained in a shelter late Sunday after fleeing San Martin, which is about 55 miles (90 kilometers) east of Mexico City. More than 115 homes were scorched, 32 of them destroyed."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101220/ap_on_bi_ge/lt_mexico_pipeline_explosion

"Investigators found a hole in the pipeline and equipment for extracting crude, said Laura Gurza, chief of the federal Civil Protection emergency response agency."

"Pemex has struggled with chronic theft, losing as much as 10 percent of all of its product. Criminals tap remote pipelines, sometimes building pipelines of their own, to siphon off hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of oil each year, Pemex has said.

There have been 100 such illegal taps this year all along the pipeline that exploded Sunday. It runs from Veracruz, a heavy oil-producing Gulf coast state, to Mexico state outside the capital, said Juan Jose Suarez, Pemex director general."

I can't think of a worst time (less than a week before Christmas) and the number of children hurt or killed is sickening.

[foodie555]

Yes, and the fact that US oil companies are complicit in this is what makes it so much worse. It's just another example of a way that my country is failing to be a good neighbor.

[Professor]