Saving face, not the miners

For me there are no ungrateful because I never do anything waiting for them to thank me. Laura Velázquez, coordinator of Civil Protection of the 4-T and special envoy of the president to the mine in Sabinas, Coahuila, which collapsed a fortnight ago trapping in its bowels ten workers with whom they have not even been able to make contact, told him in his special link in the morning yesterday, that he is going to ask for a second opinion abroad but only to validate that all the determinations we have made are the right ones and that we are on the right track.            This statement portrays how the government is handling this crisis in which after two weeks of not even being able to enter into communication with the miners sixty meters deep, the person in charge of their rescue affirms, oronda, that we are doing very well.                    The same envoy said that fortunately we had a call with the German ambassador in Mexico, who is also (sic) a mining engineer and, insisting that we are on the right track, announced that a company from the United States will join the work. Let’s see what their opinion is (sic) and added that Germany is going to give us a second opinion, which validates, of course, what it has done, Translating the report, just asking, Why wait two weeks to seek the advice of foreign specialists and only for them to validate what it has done? Is that the important thing and not the rescue of the victims?            It is that in stellar times the 4-T its officials must have ninety percent loyalty and ten percent capacity.            Even if ten miners die. RETALES1. Term.- In December 2018, the president proposed to the Senate that Gerardo Esquivel end the term of Roberto del Cueto, upon his resignation for health reasons, as deputy governor of the Bank of Mexico. The deadline ends on December 31 and the financial community asks him to propose esquivel himself, for the period of eight. Esquivel is an exceptional economist, recognized academic and factor of seriousness and stability;2.  PLAN.- Dr. Alma Maldonado, a researcher at CINESTAV, told me yesterday that more than a new curriculum, the SEP should see how to recover the one million 300 thousand students who did not return to school after the pandemic. And that his presentation, on Tuesday, more than a didactic and pedagogical debate, was an act of political propaganda; y3. HELICOPTER.- More than three weeks ago a helicopter disappeared from the AICM facilities, and its management demarcated itself saying that the security in the area of the hangars is of private guards who pay those who rent them that, as I told you, is a failure in a strategic and national security facility. The case went away for the kidnapping of the owner of the gyroplane. That, in a state of law where a helicopter and its pilot can disappear, and go into oblivion. See you tomorrow, but in private.



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