AMLO admits that 31 are still missing after Hurricane Otis and the majority are at sea

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), acknowledged this Thursday that 31 remain missing after the scourge of Hurricane Otis five weeks ago and most of them are at sea, which sparked protests from their families to intensify the search.

“The search for the missing continues and the Navy maintains an operation throughout the bay, There are 31 people on the boats that sank, most of them supposedly at sea and divers are continuing with a special operation, in research”, declared the president at his daily press conference.

López Obrador promised to continue supporting Acapulcothe most affected city and one of the most touristic cities in the country, after completing five weeks of the Otis huracan, which took 50 years after touching down on October 25th in the southern state of Guerrero, where the record of intensification for a cycle in the Mexico.

During his visit last week to the affected area, families protested to question the president’s search efforts, which received questions about the official number of victims and the late care of victims in Acapulco and Coyuca de Benítez, the two most damaged.

In particular, they reported that the authorities did not search for dozens of sailors lost at sea.

“Of course, the families of the victims, those who lost their lives, the families of the missing, are being taken care of, are participating, together with the Navy, in the search for their families”, the president now commented.

The Mexican president, who promised to “put Acapulco back on its feet” by Christmas, said his government is “moving forward with the entire construction plan” and that things are “getting back to normal”.

“There are around 40 thousand public employees, civil and military, and progress is being made, yesterday support began to be provided to families for cleaning and this will continue until the 7th (December), and from then on they will begin to be delivered . funds for building houses, he claimed.

On November 1, the Government estimated reparations and social support at 61,313 million pesos (more than 3,500 million dollars), but the Fitch agency estimated the catastrophic losses at 16,000 million dollars and business chambers anticipated up to 300,000 million pesos (almost 17.4 billion dollars). dollars).

Source: Elcomercio

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