Civil Protection has offered the families of the miners to open a pit to access the place where the 10 workers could be trapped since August 3, when the collapse occurred in the Pinabete coal pits, in Cuahuila.
Work to excavate that access would take between six and 11 months.
Those words are enough to give up the little hope that the relatives might have.
No one will get out alive, they suggest.
But relatives have also rejected this project.
They want them as soon as possible, they have said in statements to the media after their conversation with the head of Civil Protection, Laura Velázquez.
The rescue of the miners was wearing out all the hopes as the days passed and the matter unfolded like a huge Sisyphus rock: when they were already bailing out water to go down to the wells, the water returned to make an appearance and flooded the galleries .
Start again.
In this way, time passed and the weariness grew in the camp outside the mine where the relatives kept vigil night after night.
They demanded international help to get them out, well aware of other accidents where the earth swallowed the corpses forever.
Entry through the shafts proved impossible.
The water, coming from the Sabinas River, gave no respite and the security conditions to proceed with the rescue were insufficient.
This Thursday, Civil Protection has informed the relatives that the most effective way would be to dig pits with ramps to enter the galleries, a job that will take between six and 11 months.
They have rejected it “outright”.
All, according to some of the women who have told the media about the government's proposal for the rescue.
“Let them deliver them to us and don't delay”, has been the response given by those affected.
"We no longer know how they are, imagine in 11 months," said one of the women.
"We don't want money, we want them."
The President of the Government, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has assured that nothing will be done without the consent of the relatives.
“They were already making progress but they had the bad luck that another hole opened in the neighboring mine that is flooded and the water levels rose again.
An opinion has been requested because the relatives requested it, from specialists in Germany, and they agree that what is being done is the right thing to do, but that it is a complicated matter.”
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