'Pirates' rob, beat oil rig workers

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Five Mexican oil workers were robbed and beaten by gun-toting “pirates” on a rig Feb. 14 in the Bay of Campeche, the state-run oil company workers union said.“Our peers who were threatened and assaulted by pirates at the Zaap Delta platform are back in (the port of) Ciudad del Carmen,” Local 47 of the Union of Petroleum Workers of the Republic of Mexico (STPRM) reported on social media on Saturday. “They are undergoing the corr