The Political Discourse on Fuel Theft in Mexico

Abstract

This study seeks to analyze the discursive production of the Mexican political elites regarding fuel shortage and theft and the explosion of the oil pipeline located in Tlahuelilpan Hidalgo on January 18 2019 where men women and children died while they were stealing gasoline Based on the theoretical-methodological scaffolding of the French School of Discourse Analysis the article explores the ideological positions of the president of Mexico the leaders of opposition political parties and the editorials of La Jornada El Universal and La Raz n newspapers to reveal the deep structure of the problem that has afflicted the country since the 1990s when the state economy opened up as a result of NAFTA