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The first national trip of the virtual president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaumwas marked this Friday by the crash of one of the cars in her delegation that caused the death of a woman who was traveling in another vehicle, according to the president-elect’s press office.
The accident occurred in the mining state of Coahuila, in the north of the country, where the first woman elected president of Mexico met the outgoing left-wing president and political godfather, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Sheinbaum, who will take office on October 1, arrived a few minutes later at the event he had agreed to with the president because “He stopped to find out the condition of the people” involved in the accident “which were already being attended to by municipal and state emergency teams,” according to their press team. “We deeply regret that a person died in the other vehicle,” Sheinbaum said in a statement.
The president-elect later told reporters that the members of her entourage who were in the accident were admitted to a hospital, but were “fine.” The Sheinbaum team car was traveling at “excess speed,” said the mayor of Monclova, Mario Alberto Dávila, of the opposition National Action Party (PAN).
The vehicle was traveling from Monterrey to San Juan Sabinas, in the neighboring state of Coahuila, to meet, along with López Obrador, with relatives of 65 miners who died in 2006 in the collapse of the Pasta de Conchos mine.
18 years after Pasta de Conchos tragedy in which 63 miners died after an explosion in a coal mine, according to relatives of the victims, due to the negligence of the operating company, Grupo México.
The López Obrador government promised to carry out the corresponding excavations to rescue the bodies of the deceased. “It is an example of justice that we are leaving so that no miner is left buried. We want to tell you that your perseverance for many years made what we are remembering possible,” said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador before relatives of the miners in the event that he shared with the elected president.
“Since then you have led a fight to recover your loved ones and for justice,” Sheinbaum said at the event with family members to whom he told that he felt “very strong emotions,” according to the Mexican newspaper. The Day.
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