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'Angie' Córdova, the homeless man who shook Mexico after surviving the subway accident

2021-05-09T10:57:51.253Z


"Thank you for making me feel that I am still alive and am part of society," said the 36-year-old after receiving appreciation for his testimony to the tragedy that occurred on the bridge under which he lived.


His name is Miguel Ángel Córdova Córdova, but he prefers to be called

Angie

.

He witnessed the collapse in Mexico City of the convoy of Line 12 of the metro at the Olivos station, where he sleeps under a bridge.

Now, his story has moved a nation mourning the tragedy.

“It sounded like an iron thundered, but it shook very ugly, it thundered and moved and we ran away, we couldn't even get our blankets out, when suddenly we were running and we fell because the big falsework came over and

we saw how it came the subway down in two,

it sank, a desperation of horrible people, I do not wish anyone to see it, I do not like to talk about this because what I experienced

was horrible, "

Miguel told a Mexican reporter who interviewed him on Wednesday .

Amid the shock of the deaths of at least 25 people, the hospitalization of dozens of injured - 38 of whom are still being treated - and several people who have not yet been found due to the collapse of the elevated track,

Angie's 

story

it has struck a chord in society.

Miguel Ángel Córdova Córdova, witness to the accident in the Mexico City metro Noise on the Internet

"

I live as a street lady and I always stay here under the Olivos

or Tezonco

bridge

,"

Angie 

told

Ruido en la Red reporter Vanessa Farías Maya.

“Yesterday I came from selling bottles, near the mines, and I came back for my blanket.

At 9:30 pm I was chatting with some friends.

It was more or less 10:00 pm when it was heard as if an iron thundered, ”the man explained.

Seeing the subway jump through the air,

Angie

says she was afraid of being crushed and much pain later for all the victims.

"I came crying from the nopalera because there are people who did not say goodbye to their families because of an idiocy, sorry to say it like that, an idiocy of our authorities, who

only seek to fill their pockets,

" he said when questioning the way in which it was built Line 12, which has a long documented history of failures and irregularities since its inauguration in 2012.

The president of Mexico promises to investigate "thoroughly" the causes of the accident in the CDMX metro

May 4, 202100: 59

Córdova prefers to be called

Angie

because her name brings back bad memories of her childhood, she told Ruido en la Red this Thursday in a second interview.

He is 36 years old

and comes from a family of nine siblings.

She recently lost her father, but doesn't like to talk about her relationship with him "because it's so painful."

A man on social media who claimed to be his brother said the family was originally from Nacajuca, Tabasco.

They haven't seen him in person for seven years and this is the first time they've heard from him since.

["There were bodies one on top of the other": that's how he survived the tragedy in Mexico]

He has been living in the south of Mexico City for 10 years, before he was in Tijuana, Tamaulipas, Salamanca, Nuevo León and Guanajuate.

He says he left home when he was just 6 years old.

He likes to read and, in particular, enjoys the poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

"Thank you for making me feel that I am still alive and am part of society

,"

Angie

said

 in the interview with the aforementioned medium.

With information on Noise in the Network.

Source: telemundo

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