The miners in Mexico

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The miners in Mexico
By: Carlos Damian November 10, 2010
The truth has been gone imposing little by little
México. - The General office of the prosecutor of the Republic (PGR) must resume the investigation by homicide in the Pasta de Conchos mine and to consider the guilt of the ex president Vicente Fox; of Francisco Javier Salazar, ex Minister Work Department, and of the current titular of that dependency, Javier Lozano, since are accomplices “Industrial Minera México (IMM)" upon hiding the insecurity with which it was compelling to the workers in the mine, demanded the bishop of Saltillo, Raul Vera Lopez.

With motive of the rescue in Chile assured that there are "sufficient technical and legal elements" to obtain that the government recapture the previous inquiry by the death of 65 working in the coal mine Pasta de Conchos (PC), located in the municipality of San Juan de Sabinas, Coahuila, that the PGR stored weeks after the tragedy. After four years of the explosion in the deposit, occurred 19 of February of 2006, he said that the family parents and widows felt "anger and indignation upon seeing that in Chile the government and the entrepreneurs were joined to recapture with life to the workers, while in Mexico made it for abandon them to die and to bury them forever".

He considered that to the let buried in the hollow to 63 of 65 charcoal-burners died in the damned mine (two of the corpses were recovered months after of the accident), the government of Mexico "remain in ridiculous total" when the world attests the efforts to recover to the Chileans and to carry them to the surface. Demanded furthermore to the PGR considers that Minera Mexico discontinued the search operations four days after the explosion, even though the brigades were indicating the viability of the rescue.

This salvage version was supported by the Geology Institute of the UNAM and by brigades that before PC they participated in different salvage operations in confined places, but the company was maintained in the posture of the fact that the search had to be discontinued due to insecurity conditions. "but the insecurity in the deposit was not something new, was from before the tragedy, and with the complicity of the government, the company discontinued the rescue so that they did not leave to the light the conditions in which the workers were obligated to work".

The gas meters were manipulated to avoid that the machines let of working, even though existed increased concentrations; the company General de Hulla contractor was removing wood girders from the spaces exploited for re-utilize them in zones new, of such form that in good part of the mine there was not support in the roof neither in the walls. Instead of steel, the girders were of wood, and there were not separating between them, as indicate the standard minimal of safety, and either there was a steel mesh that serves to avoid you collapses".

The hierarch discarded furthermore the version of the company with respect to that the quarry was come down completely, since "with a video camera that was introduced by a shot of ventilation, the researchers observed that the fund of the deposit was intact". Concerning the survivor testimonies and of families of the widows and family parents, as well as to technical documents with respect to that the subsidiary company of Grupo Mexico curtailed resources for safety.

The company manipulates the truth
Maria Trinidad Cantu and Raul Villasana, parents of Rail Villasana Cantu, one of 65 mining died in the explosion occurred in 2006 in PC, indicated that to the relatives of the expired workers and the federal and state governments " lied us". "The reality is that when was recaptured to two of 65 working that expired, the bodies were completed, they were not burnt. In fact is that after 55 months, the remains of our mining have not been take out, because of this we maintain ourselves in struggle".

"The images that we saw million of persons of the rescue in Chile could have been of the salvage in PC. The difference is that here, the governments of the PAN, Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon, made what the company ordered, they did not had sensibility neither good-will". Carlos Rodriguez, directing of the center of Rehabilitation and Occupational Action (Cereal), it said the foregoing. Cereal carried the case to the Inter-American Commission of Human Laws (CIDH).

Continuing with the topic, asserts Rodriguez, the contrast with the accidents of Chile and Mexico, is that here the government of right-side ordered the army by before. Closed the mine. None of the presidents of the PAN were in the place of the facts. The state policy is first the yields of the capital and the workers that are died. Heavy crockery that is closed on the elections project for 2012 of PAN. (La Jornada, política, p.p. 10-11, October 14, 2010)