Five days after the boat “Halcón I” was found by an aircraft of the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) overturned and without crew, and four days after another ship was found with the fisherman Lázaro Esquivel Castellano on the also overturned hull, later fell into the sea and died, the families of the shipwrecked say they receive no official help.
Interviewed at the La Caleta dock, the base of the damaged boats, Martha Alicia García Brito, María del Carmen Abreu Ramírez, Ruby Moreno Chuc, Guadalupe Hernández Sosa, and Yolidavel Hernández Sosa, mothers, wives, and sisters of the castaways of the “Halcón I,” affirm that they have not received any help or attention from Mayor Erik Rihani González or Governor Joaquín Díaz Mena.
Gathered in a space in the fishing shelter that has been transformed into their second home, the relatives of the missing fishermen ask Díaz Mena to come to Progreso and meet them, where they set sail.
“We will not move from here until they find the bodies of our husbands, children, and brothers,” they emphasize.
Furthermore, they state that they do not want more sensationalist videos or for things to be published that they did not say, because they do not want to create problems. They only beg that the search for the bodies continue and that it not be suspended. For this reason, they ask that the state governor come to La Caleta.
“We know that he visited Celestún and also came to Progreso, but he was only on the boardwalk to see the damage to the pier and the effects on tourism.”
“He did not come to La Caleta to talk to us, listen and learn about the situation we are in, the ordeal we are experiencing,” they express.
Relatives of the missing fishermen from the boat “Halcón I” demand that the search continue. They claim that the boats were not equipped.
“We are not looking, nor do we want to confront the governor,” says a mother, although she clarifies that the boats were not equipped and that the owners, out of ambition, forced them to work.
We think that what they are doing is looking for culprits, but what we want is for them to not stop looking for the bodies.
From the mayor of Progreso, another mother says, we have not received help either, he has not even shown up to La Caleta, perhaps because the fishermen are not from this port. We can’t force him to come.
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