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US construction firm says Mexican forces seized its property...Vulcan chairman and CEO J. Thomas Hill said the seizure was "illegal."
Just The News ^ | By Madeleine Hubbard Updated: March 20, 2023 - 11:52am

Posted on 03/20/2023 12:03:38 PM PDT by Red Badger

Vulcan Materials, a U.S.-based construction firm, says that armed Mexican forces took over its marine terminal in southeast Mexico.

Former Trump intelligence official Cliff Sims tweeted a video Saturday of the alleged illegal seizure earlier this month.

"This is insane," he wrote in the post, which shows Mexican military officials, police officers and others entering the facility.

VIDEO AT LINK.....................

In a letter Thursday to Esteban Moctezuma, Mexico's ambassador to the U.S., Vulcan Chairman and CEO J. Thomas Hill said the seizure that occurred early in the morning of March 14 was "illegal."

He said the Mexican company CEMEX joined with government forces to enter Vulcan's private property, which they "continue to illegally occupy."

Former Trump National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe also condemned the apparent seizure.

"Getting pretty used to the Biden administration letting China and Russia kick sand in our faces (covid and fentanyl deaths, spy balloons, taking down U.S. MQ-9 Reaper)—but now Mexico, too?," he tweeted Saturday. "The Biden administration needs to engage immediately to defend a U.S. company and to protect U.S. interests. This is the only deep water port on the Yucatán Peninsula. Significant geopolitical and economic implications."

The Mexican government has not responded to requests for comment from Fox News Digital or Bloomberg.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: mexico
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1 posted on 03/20/2023 12:03:38 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Choices:

Stolen in mexico or here by Biden.................


2 posted on 03/20/2023 12:06:05 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Red Badger

The Vulcans might decide its not logical to continue trading with us at all.


3 posted on 03/20/2023 12:08:08 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Red Badger

Looks like Cemex has a new terminal. So Joe, what are you going to do about this?


4 posted on 03/20/2023 12:10:44 PM PDT by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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To: Red Badger

“Getting pretty used to the Biden administration letting China and Russia kick sand in our faces (covid and fentanyl deaths, spy balloons, taking down U.S. MQ-9 Reaper)—but now Mexico, too?” Makes logical sense. The world sees Joe as a paper tiger.


5 posted on 03/20/2023 12:11:57 PM PDT by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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To: Texas resident

The world sees Joe as toilet paper......................


6 posted on 03/20/2023 12:12:42 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Texas resident

I hope that people understand that Mexican based Cemex has quarries, aggregate and concrete plants all over the southern US.
Monster plants in Arizona for example.


7 posted on 03/20/2023 12:13:32 PM PDT by KC Burke (Diversity, Inclusion and Equity is not another way to spell GOD but it is a way to spell DIE.)
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To: Red Badger

The cartels needed a seaport.


8 posted on 03/20/2023 12:15:40 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: KC Burke

So TIT for TAT?


9 posted on 03/20/2023 12:16:03 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: Red Badger

This guy is surprised?

Estupido Greengo


10 posted on 03/20/2023 12:17:08 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jiim)
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To: Chickensoup

Works for me. I think he should sue them in US courts as well as Mexican courts. Take his judgment against US operating arms of the overall parent company.


11 posted on 03/20/2023 12:17:14 PM PDT by KC Burke (Diversity, Inclusion and Equity is not another way to spell GOD but it is a way to spell DIE.)
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To: Red Badger
Headquarters in Birmingham, Al.

Vulcan Materials

12 posted on 03/20/2023 12:23:39 PM PDT by Will88 ((The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.))
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To: Texas resident

Cemex??
Joe’s not going to do anything about it because his and Hunters oligarch business partners like Carlos Slim Helu operate the board of Cemex.


13 posted on 03/20/2023 12:29:29 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: Red Badger
This is a way for the CCP and their navy to gain a deep water port closer to us.

Mexico's Cemex strikes deal to enter Chinese market (NOVEMBER 19, 2019)

14 posted on 03/20/2023 12:31:00 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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> So Joe, what are you going to do about this? <

I’m guessing that he’ll be contacting CEMEX and asking for his customary 10%.
He might also send them a souvenir mug.


15 posted on 03/20/2023 12:34:34 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: dynachrome
"The cartels needed a seaport."

More like the CCP does.

More...Top US Commander Warns 'Front Line' With China Now South of Border (March 16, 2021)

16 posted on 03/20/2023 12:34:53 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: rxsid

Bingo! See post 13


17 posted on 03/20/2023 12:40:22 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: Red Badger

If you had our President you confiscate anything you can.


18 posted on 03/20/2023 12:44:42 PM PDT by Rappini (In hoc signo vinces)
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To: Rappini

They know Biden will not do anything................


19 posted on 03/20/2023 12:47:01 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

A giant limestone quarry 5 miles south of playa Del Carmen. Tulum is to the south. Mexico wants to develop it for tourism and I don’t blame them. Anyway, all of this lime stone is being mined out and shipped to the United States. This is just another crap globalist NAFTA company that should be mining limestone here in America. If there’s one thing America has, it’s gigantic miles deep and hundreds of miles wide swaths of limestone.

This sounds like a Wall Street problem to me.


20 posted on 03/20/2023 1:27:28 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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