Huachicol

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The huachicol or guachicol is an adulterated alcoholic beverage. [1] [2] The Mexican Spanish word is also used to name the fuel (gasoline or diesel) adulterated or stolen. People who engage in the illegal activity of stealing and adulterating fuel and alcoholic beverages in Mexico are known as huachicoleros. [3]

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Etymology

According to the studies of Arturo Ortega Morán, a Mexican writer specialized in the origin of the words and expressions of Castilian, the word huachicol comes from the Latin word "aquati", which means watered down. During the sixteenth century the term aquati referred to a technique used in painting, which consists in diluting the pigments in water. When this word was used in France it became "gouache" retaining its meaning. Later, when the name of this technique arrived in Mexico during the 19th century, I used to refer to it as "painting the guach".

At that time the tequila and brandy vendors who diluted the drinks with water to obtain more profits, they began to be named with the appellation of guachicolero or huachicolero. Similarly, they began to be called fuel traders who lowered their gasoline or oil with water to achieve better profits. Currently the word huachicolero is used to denote a person dedicated to theft, illegal transfer and sale of hydrocarbons. [4]

It could also derive from the Tlachiqueros, people in charge of scraping the maguey and then extracting the mead.

Preparation and use of the drink

For its preparation, the huachicoleros went through a sieve the "mojadito", cubic sugar or caramel that stuck in the pipes, added cane alcohol, lit it and distilled it in a container; either with cinnamon tea, orange peels, plums from Spain or simple water and they drank it (Gastélum 1992). [5]

In the preparation of the huachicol, methanol is produced because the diversity of the added ingredients and its artisanal process do not guarantee a stable temperature for its proper distillation. The consumption of these adulterated drinks causes headaches, tremors, blindness due to optic nerve damage and death in different degrees (WHO ICD-10 2010). [6]

Stolen fuel for cars

The adulterated fuel is diluted with different substances to achieve greater financial benefit when sold and can cause damage to the cars in which it is used. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Glosario". www.acamextequila.com.mx (in Mexican Spanish). Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  2. ↑ "¿Cuál es el origen y uso de la palabra huachicolero?" (in Mexican Spanish). Academia Mexicana de la Lengua. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  3. ↑ "¿Qué son los huachicoleros?". www.facebook.com/joseluisespinosafernandez (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  4. ↑ "Huachicol y huachicolero, ¿qué significan estas palabras?". México Desconocido (in Spanish). 9 January 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  5. ↑ Orejel, Roberto Gastélum (1992). Recuerdos de Los Mochis (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  6. ↑ Policiaca, La (16 December 2010). "Bebida que mata". La Policiaca - La Nota Roja De Mexico (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 12 May 2017.[ permanent dead link ]
  7. ↑ "Asesinan a dos en negocio....En negocio de diesel..Cadena de corrupciones. » Laguneros en el Mundo / Foros #Torreón". foros.elsiglo.mx (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 12 May 2017.
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