By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Aug. 29, the families of 10 Mexican miners – who have been trapped inside a flooded mine in Sabinas, Coahuila, without outside contact since Aug. 3 – accepted the Mexican government’s proposal to recover their relatives’ bodies though an up to 11-month-long excavation process and essentially accepting the miners’ lives as already lost. The National
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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Ever since 10 coal miners in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila were trapped 60 meters underground in a flooded mine on Aug. 3, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been looking for a scapegoat to blame the tragedy on. From originally trying to pass the responsibility on to the miners themselves for not following
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XINHUA Reflooding has “complicated efforts” to recover 10 miners who have been trapped for nearly three weeks in a Coahuila coal mine in northern Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) admitted Monday, Aug. 22. Water levels inside the El Pinabete mine, in the town of Sabinas in Coahuil, rose again over the weekend as rescue efforts continued to no
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By MARK LORENZANA Specialists from a U.S. company joined the efforts to rescue 10 workers who have been trapped for 15 days at the El Pinabete mine in the Mexican state of Coahuila, Laura Velázquez, national coordinator of Civil Protection, reported on Wednesday, Aug. 17. “The company from the United States will join the work, and we are going to see what
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By MARK LORENZANA Even as 10 miners remain trapped in a collapsed mine in the Mexican state of Coahuila, the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been reportedly paying 500,000 pesos a day for the aid — in the form of a firefighting ship — that it has provided Cuba to help the island nation extinguish a
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By KELIN DILLON On Aug. 3, 15 Mexican miners were trapped in a Coahuila coal mine after accidentally breaching a nearby water-filled well while working on the site; though five managed to escape, 10 still remain within the mine without any contact with the outside world and their chance of survival diminishing with every passing day. Now, the Mexican authorities
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Less than two years until the long-awaited presidential elections of 2024 are held in Mexico, the country will soon experience a political prelude of great relevance during the midterm elections for governor in the states of Coahuila and the State of Mexico (EdoMéx), which will likely define the course of Mexican politics toward the
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Mine Safety in Mexico
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By MARK LORENZANA The visit of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to the collapsed El Pintabete coal mine in Mexico’s northern state of Coahuila — where, on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 10 miners were trapped by the collapse and flooding of a well, and who are yet to be rescued — has added more despair, instead of comfort, to
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Four days after at least 10 men were trapped in the collapsed El Pinabete coal mine in Mexico’s northern state of Coahuila, with prospects of their survival dimming rapidly as rescue workers have been unable to drain a 40-meter flood of water that has filled the mine, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) on Sunday, Aug. 7,
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