This information, from Diarios de Colima, can be found here.The Navy could then argue, with the government, that since the things were taken into their custody, the disappearance and theft of containers has decreased considerably.Everything has a limit: stealing or disappearing a container from an industrial port could be a feat of illusion worthy of David Copperfield.But actually stealing 20 containers in a single night, without firing a shot or leaving a trace, is something that can only be provided by organized crime in the storage warehouses adjoining an industrial port guarded by the Mexican Navy.This is what happened in one of the security yards of the port of Manzanillo on Sunday, June 5, 2022: the crime/surveillance duo worked admirably and 20 containers were stolen.It sounds like a lot, but when you do the math, the Navy and the government could argue that what happened is that container theft rates have dropped since the Navy took charge of policing the country's ports.The new Mexican criminal specialty of stealing bulk containers has a recent but substantive history, only surpassed by Netflix's delusional screenwriters in Money Heist.Some figures: Manzanillo is the leading Mexican container port.In 2021, more than 3 million containers arrived or left that port by sea, land or rail.I point out, in defense of those who can take advantage of it, that on Sunday, June 5, only 20 containers were stolen.But that between 2016 and 2018, that is, in the neoliberal era, 58 complaints were filed for the theft of 103 containers, of which 34 were recovered.This information, from Diarios de Colima, can be found here.The Navy could then argue, with the government, that since things came into their custody the disappearance and theft of containers has decreased considerably.What remains stable is the average value of losses for each stolen or missing container: 600 million pesos.And the sustained Mexican specialty, both in the neoliberal era and in the era of the so-called Fourth Transformation, is that nobody knows a damn thing about what happened and the country is as if facing an uninterrupted performance of David Copperfield, taken to the gigantic scale of native criminal surrealism.López-Dóriga Digital 2014–2021 - All Rights Reserved.