Abstract This article aims to analyze the quality of information on oil theft in Mexico, in two aspects: public data regarding the evolution and distribution of the phenomenon and public data concerning state actions to combat oil theft. To achieve this goal, three different sources are used:1) proactive transparency portals of governmental institutions involved in this public problem,2) answers granted to information requests issued between 2006 and 2018, and lastly,3) the answers to the requests made by the authors of this article. Despite the public relevance of the problem and the fact that it has even been part of the new administration’s agenda from the start, information remains dispersed and fragmented. Transparency efforts on this issue are still insufficient to generate an informed debate or a citizen evaluation of the governmental actions to face it.

Resumen El objetivo de este artículo es presentar un diagnóstico de la calidad de la información sobre robo de combustible en México en dos vertientes: la información relativa a la evolución y distribución del fenómeno, y la información relativa a las acciones estatales para combatirlo. Para ello, acudimos a tres distintas fuentes de información: 1) portales de transparencia proactiva de las diversas instituciones involucradas en este problema público, 2) respuestas otorgadas a solicitudes de información sobre el tema realizadas entre 2006-2018, y finalmente, 3) respuestas a solicitudes propias. Encontramos que, a pesar de la relevancia pública del problema y de que el nuevo gobierno lo incorporó en su agenda desde el primer momento, la información continúa dispersa y fragmentada. Los esfuerzos de transparencia sobre este tema son aún insuficientes para generar un debate informado o una evaluación ciudadana de las acciones llevadas a cabo para combatir el robo de combustible.

We detected Leishmania mexicana in skin biopsies taken from a stray canine (Canis familiaris) and Texas mouse (Peromyscus attwateri) at two ecologically disparate sites in west and central Texas using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). A single PCR-positive dog was identified from a sample of 96 stray canines and was collected in a peri-urban area in El Paso County, Texas. The PCR-positive P. attwateri was trapped at a wildlife reserve in Mason County, Texas, from a convenience sample of 20 sylvatic mammals of different species. To our knowledge, this represents the first description of L. mexicana in west Texas and extends the known geographic range of the parasite to an area that includes the arid Chihuahuan Desert. Our finding of L. mexicana in P. attwateri represents a new host record and is the first description of the parasite in a wild peromyscid rodent in the United States.