Tuesday, January 20, 2026

PORT TO LEASE DOCK, STORAGE SPACE FOR MEXICAN OIL

Special to El Rrun-Rrun

Even as federal authorities try to nail the movement of Mexican oil and other petroleum by-products moving into U.S. ports, the board of commissioners of the Brownsville Navigation District will consider the award of a new lease for port property to a principal linked to Reynosa's former mayor Oscar Leubbert Gutierrez, related by blood to sitting commissioner Ernesto Gutierrez.

Oscar Luebbert-Gutierrez is the first cousin of the late Ernesto Gutierrez Sr., (AKA El Pajaro), the father of port commissioner Ernesto Gutierrez Jr. (AKA El Pajarito.)

In today's meeting agenda, the board will consider awarding a new lease at the port to Luga Petroil, a McAllen-based company which names Daniel Luebbert Camargo as one of its registered agents. Daniel Leubbert Camargo is the son of Oscar Leubbert Gutierrez. 

Luga Petroil's contact in McAllen is Daniel Luebbert Camargo, son of Reynosa Mayor Oscar Luebbert Gutierrez who formed a financial group – Luebbert -Martinez-Aldama – composed of companies in customs, transport and combustibles that a news report names as a group than was formed to move Mexican oil.

Daniel Luebbert Camargo, is listed as a manager of Luga Petroil LLC, Texas Domestic Liability Company (LLC), in McAllen

His father Oscar Luebbert Gutierrez and his grupo empresarial applied on August 21, 2024 – four months after they made a generous campaign contribution to port commissioner Gutierrez – for waterfront properties at the Port of Brownsville to set up a "land-borne terminal for diesel, bio diesel, lube oil, and to recycle oil" that covered "1,492 acres and 325 linear feet of dock space" and goes under the name of OLG (Oscar Luebbert Gutierrez) Petroleum.

Publicly and privately, Port of Brownsville chairman Esteban Guerra has denied that any of the stolen crude (huachicol) ended up at the port and that all that activity took place at the port at Rio Hondo. 

The elder Luebbert and his "grupo empresarial" includes Fernando Martinez Tirado, a Rancho Viejo resident who operates out of Monterrey, N.L., Mexico, for the group. 

The minutes of that meeting indicate that Commissioner Gutierrez was present and took part in the discussion and vote on his relative (Luebbert Gutierrez's) application and approval on the consent to assignment of the port property. Chairman Steve Guerra also voted in favor of the motion.

The connection between Luebbert's grupo empresarial and the port commissioner goes beyond familial association. In fact, Luebbert's partner Fernando Martinez Tirado took an active role in Ernesto Gutierrez Jr.'s election in 2024 with a generous $5,000 contribution.


And one hand, apparently, washes the other. Luebbert and his grupo empresarial applied on August 21, 2024 – four months after they made their campaign contribution to Gutierrez – for waterfront properties at the Port of Brownsville to set up a "land-borne terminal for diesel, bio diesel, lube oil, and to recycle oil" that covered "1,492 acres and 325 linear feet of dock space" and goes under the name of OLG (Oscar Luebbert Gutierrez) Petroleum.

In fact, the use of the port to transfer Mexican oil has drawn the attention of social media and border pundits: "The Port of Brownsville has become a transfer node in the transit of stolen Mexican oil. It and Los Indios Bridge offer a discreet entry and distribution points....And who is behind the logistics at the border?..." TikTok  @Edypintor777 

Are we making too much of the ties between the Luebbert Camargo and their relative Ernesto Gutierrez on the board of the Port of Brownsville's commission? Maybe, but much stranger things have happened. Or perhaps, will.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is exactly what happens when you let Matamoros people take over a governing body on this side of the Rio Grande. This time around it’s Reynosa, what does that entail, they’re stretching their turf on who can be a player at the port of Brownsville. I was told as a youngster, to understand the character of a business look at its leader, in this case that would be Steve Guerra at the top allowing for México to have an influence on what business is brought to the port. This is simply and obviously a very nepotistic play in favor of Gutierrez, his family, and of course the kingpin Steve. Are these the same people that allowed for the smuggling of oil through the “port” (more like stream) of Harlingen? I’m almost positive they had a role in that game. Be smart about this citizens of Brownsville, they keep on making themselves more obvious.

TVS trucking and oilfield services said...

I hope all these Huachicole trucking companies are investigated by the FBI. Brownsville planning and zoning department and Zoning commission are run by realtors who serve all these cartels and Huachicoles. You want to have industrial sites next to people's homes, inside city limits? That stink like fucking gas and Roundup, who can't even pave their parking lots? Take it to the Port of Brownsville, BROWNSVILLE! Fuck the city government of Brownsville Texas! Bunch of crooked fucks!

Anonymous said...

The New Oil Barons emerging in Brownsville. It is a family with connections. Will they donate money to build a Recreation Center, Academic Center, local Park?

Anonymous said...

Ernesto. You are the biggest disappointment at the Port. You became one of them. Never again.

Anonymous said...

I’m sorry to inform you but he was one of them the entire time.

Anonymous said...

And, the crooked deals continue in the land of democrat crooks! I guess these board of directors were steered by the relation in blood? So, this will happen and then ICE and the Justice Department will be coming down on them in time!

rita