Mexican drug gangsters menace natural gas drillers

Mexican drug gangsters menace natural gas drillers | Reuters: "On two occasions late last year, men brandishing automatic weapons drove into worksites in the Burgos basin in the states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon where new gas wells were to be constructed.

The gunmen warned the workers they would be killed unless their employer paid protection money to the Zetas, a feared drug gang, a senior executive of the company overseeing the construction of the wells told Reuters.

The threats are a new twist in Mexico's bloody drug war, which is hitting businesses near the U.S.-Mexico border."