Monterrey, Mexico.– President Andrés Manuel López Obrador began private meetings this afternoon with relatives of the miners who died in the El Pinabete and Pasta de Conchos mines.
The president arrived at around 12:30 p.m. in the Coahuila Coal Region from Mexico City by military plane. He was accompanied by President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum.
By land he moved to the vicinity of the Pasta de Conchos mine, about 10 kilometers south of Nueva Rosita, where his family, who had arrived earlier by bus, were waiting for him. On the way to the event, a demonstration of Nueva Rosita residents was waiting for him complaining about the lack of water supply, and in front of the meeting place there were residents expressing their support and Morena militants in cherry t-shirts and several teachers affiliated with the SNTE.
It was López Obrador's last visit in his six years in office, committing to the families of the 63 trapped miners from Pasta de Conchos and 10 miners from El Pinabete.
At Pasta de Conchos, where 63 miners were trapped in a blast in February 2006, rescue efforts have found the remains of one person. At the El Pinabete mine, where 20 miners were trapped in a flash flood in 2022, seven miners' bodies have been recovered.