Monsignor Noel. Waiting for the arrival of the teams that will help rescue the two miners who have been trapped for eight days in the Cerro de Maimón mine keeps mother and grandmother Gregory Gregory Alexander Méndez Torres in total anguish.

Méndez Torres and the Colombian Carlos Yépez Ospina. Méndez were trapped on Sunday, July 31, after a collapse in an underground mine owned by the Dominican Mining Corporation (Cormidom). In these eight days of impatience and anxiety, waiting for positive news, Juana Torres, Gregory’s mother, barely sleeps and begins to lose weight.

The lady lives in the Buenos Aires sector of the Maimón community, while the grandmother lives in La Quebradita, belonging to the province of Sánchez Ramírez.

Gregory Alexander Méndez Torres, is the father of a six-year-old girl who only asks for news of her father, because he has not been able to hear her voice for more than a week.

Juana Torres’ situation of anxiety is such that she hardly returns home to change, to leave urgently to have news of her son.

Regina Martínez, grandmother of Gregory Alexander, with whom he practically grew up, says that her grandson took this job, with the sole purpose of obtaining money to build his house and support his daughter .

Martínez hopes the authorities will speed up their efforts to be able to rescue his son and his companion safely. “What we hope is that they get them out as soon as possible. This boy is loved by everyone because he works hard, ”explains Carmen Martínez, a neighbor of Juan Torres.

Martínez, who has four nephews and the wife of one of his daughters working in the mine, believes that the authorities should put more emphasis on forcing the mining company to carry out greater security checks, because these In recent years, there have been three cases, with two people killed in similar situations.
Zacarías Abreu, who also has a son who works as a miner, is asking for better conditions.

With the arrival of the Canadian military plane, scheduled for Sunday evening, it is expected that this Monday more than 52,000 pounds of machinery, tools and various technologies will help to rescue the two miners trapped for a week in the Cerro de Maimon.

The teams arrived on the Val-d’Or plane from Canada.

Equipment provided includes a Cubex Model 6200 drill, which weighs over 25,000 pounds with its mast, and an R-110 Cubex Booster. Also, 8,500-pound equipment reinforcements, tool boxes, rod racks, transformers and miscellaneous equipment make up the rest of the equipment for this type of operation.

The aid, coordinated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Dominican Ambassador to Canada, Michelle Cohen, was provided by Machines Roger International, a mining company based in Val-d’Or, Canada, and is carried out in coordination with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Defense, Canadian Armed Forces and their counterparts in the Dominican Republic.

As part of the procedure, Ambassador Cohen was in direct contact with Lieutenant General Carlos Luciano Díaz Morfa, Minister of Defense; Antonio Almonte Reynoso, Minister of Energy and Mines; Miguel de Peña, mining adviser to the executive branch, Christine Laberge, Canadian ambassador to the country and Elizabeth Mena, vice-president of Cormidom.

Vice receives personnel and equipment from Canada

The Vice-President of the Republic, Raquel Peña, received this Sunday the trained personnel sent by the Federal Government of Canada, who arrived with the teams to rescue the two miners trapped in Cerro de Maimón.

“A few days ago, from the Dominican government, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and our embassy in Ottawa, we requested the collaboration of the Canadian government, given the vast experience of said country in the mining sector and the ties of friendship and cooperation. that unite our peoples.