▲ As the days go by, the situation becomes increasingly desperate due to the lack of information. Archive image.Photo Marco Peláez
Leopoldo Ramos
Correspondent
The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, July 24, 2024, p. 12
San Juan de Sabinas, Coah., Relatives of miners who died in the Pasta de Conchos coal mine complained about the opacity and lack of information from the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) regarding the progress of the search and recovery of the bodies trapped in the mine for 18 years.
Elvira Martínez Espinoza, widow of Jorge Vladimir Muñoz, said that, as the days go by, the situation becomes more and more desperate.
The Attorney General’s Office is not informing us of any real progress in the search and recovery work. There is gas in the affected areas and there is no precise information on when another recovery could be made.
he pointed.
He lamented the lack of interest in the families and the absolute control that the FGR tries to maintain over the details of the work.
Separately, Elizabeth Castillo Rábago, widow of Gil Rico Montelongo, mentioned that the FGR is making the recovery of the miners’ bodies conditional on them by demanding that they remain silent and not make progress known to the public.
We are told that it will probably be until August 4th that the families of the miner who manages to be identified will be known directly, after a month has passed since the recovery of the first body and the work that continues with the remains that were found four days later.
he stressed.
Castillo Rábago also expressed concern for the safety of workers carrying out the search and recovery. There is nothing concrete, everything is still very slow; in addition, there are faults inside the areas where they are carrying out the work, equipment failures and the rescuers fear that an accident could happen to them that could claim the life of one of them.
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The widows’ statements come after the remains of one of the 63 workers trapped in the mine were recovered on June 28; but specialists have not yet determined his identity. On July 3, biological remains were also found, although authorities have not yet determined whether they belong to one or more people.
