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The group’s many years of experience in humanitarian disasters Mexican Volunteers Aztec Topos Now he is trying to find Elizabeth, a 38-year-old woman who was swept away by the storm. Valencia (this one) and that they insist on calling them by their first names because they are looking for “people with faces and last names, not bodies.”
Hector Mendez, better known as El Chino, is the Big Mole and leads a team of ten search and rescue specialists from Mexico, joined by ten more. Spanish, Panamanian and German volunteers.
The goal is to find in Valencia people are still missing after the flood October 29, which left at least 219 people dead and 13 people still missing.
Their goal this week is to find Elizabeth Gil, a woman who was driving to work with her mother, Elvira Martinez, when the Oct. 29 flood washed away their car.
Elvira’s body was found a few days later, but Elizabeth had not yet been found, and her eldest son, who is 18, asked the Moles to find her.
“We are here to do what families cannot do because they are emotionally affected and mentally broken,” explains El Chino EFEtraveling with his team through the deadly Poyo Gorge near Valencia, which claimed so many lives.
They are all dressed in orange and holding sharp-tipped bamboo canes, which they use to pierce every inch of ground in the desolate landscape left by the hurricane on both sides of the boulevard.
If they find any clues, such as a piece of Elizabeth’s car or the smell of death on the tip of a bamboo stick, they stop and dig.
They stayed like that for two weeks, as they managed to complete the procedures and leave Mexico on a flight that took them to Valencia a week after the disaster.
The first relatives of the victims to contact the Aztec moles were Paola and Ivan, the daughter and son-in-law of a businessman who was leaving a work lunch when he was swept away by the water.
“I told Paola,” says El Chino, “consider that I am a friend of your father and that he called me to go look for him. I am an Indian relative and told my Mexican friends, “Come.”
“It’s important that families feel like they’re being helped,” adds the 75-year-old veteran; This gives them hope and also creates a flow of empathy and solidarity that makes others join them.”
“Paola’s father showed up. Great! -continues-. Then another person asked us to find his 3 and 5 year old nephews. Children, thank God, also appeared so that families could relax.”
“After the children’s funeral, we were called to look for Mrs. Amparo Montes, who lived on the 17th floor and went down with her daughter to pull the car out of the parking lot, and, unfortunately, it was carried away by the current,” he recalls; and now we are looking for Elizabeth, a woman who has a name, a surname, a face and someone to look for her.”
The work the Topos are doing in Valencia reminds him of what they did in La Pintada, in Guerrero, when an avalanche flooded dozens of houses with mud.
This is also reminiscent of the Puebla (Mexico) tragedy in 1999 and the Brumadinho (Brazil) tragedy, although in each country “there are different ways of working” and “it is important to always be in contact with the local population, because otherwise everything will be bad.” it won’t work. “Fine”.
In Spain they believe that they were “received very well” and that many people joined them on the raids. “The children and girls who came to help from all over Spain are worth their weight in gold,” he thanks.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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