Relatives of Pasta de Conchos accused the CFE “of not having the money” to pursue the rescue of the miners

The rescue of the bodies of miners trapped in the mine Concho Pasta is increasingly disabled due to conflict between the companies would be in charge of the rescue and the parastatal Federal Electricity Commission (CFE)which they indicated remain inactive.

Added to this is the recent statement by the Family Organization Pasta Conchoswho in social networks pointed out that the Commission did not have enough resources to continue salvage work, which caused further flooding of the tunnels.

Through a publication on their social networks, they accused the CFE of having assured relatives that they had no money to hire pumps with which to drain advances in tunnels made for rescue.

In the posts, they shared photos and videos of the status of the works that were abandoned for three months and that they would restart in Marchalthough medio Milenio reported that the representative of the Electricity Commission, Mauricio Pico Medinatold the organization’s representative that there was no specific date to resume the rescue.

“As the @STPS (Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare) reported that the #Rescue at #PastaDeConchos resumes at the end of March. @CFEmx tells families there is no date as they are still trying to end to the contractor.”

On the other hand, in the last image they show a tunnel that would communicate tilted, but they mentioned that it was “terrifying”, because failed to comply with mining regulations having no casings or screens. However, the CFE would have replied that it was not subject to compliance with mining regulations because it was a work of art.

The promise of rescue is one that has been in the air since current President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) agreed to perform the rescue. However, Pasta de Conchos’ parents saw only breaks, slow progress and money troubles.

It should be noted that on February 24, the STPS presented the progress made in the Global Reparations and Justice Plan where it was specified that 99% of the indemnities had already been paid. Although it was not mentioned that to date, none of the 63 bodies that have been there since 2006 have been rescued.

A few days earlier, when he turned 17, on February 19, the authorities announced that the second stage of the rescue plan would begin at the end of January. This was stated by the STPS, which is why the relatives were indignant at the opinion of the CFE that this would not be the case.

Indeed, the companies Deterra and PROACON, in charge of carrying out the Recovery Plan, They laid off 300 employees for lack of CFE payments to businesses. This further encouraged bailouts, so that miners’ widows they organized demonstrations and demanded that the work continue.

Derived from the above, the CFE indicated that the contracts with the companies in charge of the advance have recently been terminated early, which has caused delays in the rescue process and will continue until the end of March 2023, to achieve the objective of reaching the points where the miners were according to the newspapers, in the first quarter 2024″.

As part of the plan, houses will be delivered to families, an agreement signed by 65 family units, so construction began in 2021. Also, the Ministry of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development (Sedatu) has launched actions to improvement in the municipalities of Muzquiz and San Juan de Sabinasas well as the construction of a memorial