More than a week after the disappearance of 10 workers from the Canadian mining company Vizsla Silver in Sinaloa, federal and state authorities have reinforced the search operation with air support and a larger deployment of personnel.
The governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, reported that the strengthened search efforts are being carried out at the instruction of Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, with the participation of the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena), the National Guard, and other agencies.
The governor detailed that the operation now involves 1,190 personnel, of which 800 belong to the Army, 270 to Special Forces, 100 to the National Guard, and 20 to law enforcement agencies.
In addition, five aircraft have been deployed for the search efforts, including three armed helicopters and two T6C-Texan aircraft.
The events occurred on January 23, when an armed group arrived at the mining camp known as “La Clementina,” located in the community of Pánuco, Municipality of Concordia, Sinaloa.
There, the assailants kidnapped 10 workers who were employed by the Canadian mining company.
Among the missing is Pablo Osorio, 23, a civil engineer originally from Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, who worked for the company Cicar S.A. de C.V. and was at the camp at the time of the kidnapping.
The other victims, mostly residents of Hermosillo, Sonora, were identified as José Antonio Jiménez, Francisco Jesús Aguilar, Saúl Alberto Ochoa, Ignacio Salazar, José Castañeda, Antonio Esparza, Javier Vargas, Javier Valdez, and José Ángel Hernández.
On January 30, Pablo Osorio’s mother, Socorro Osorio Sánchez, and his brother, Jorge Jiménez Osorio, expressed their fear that the young man may have been the victim of a possible forced recruitment by organized crime.
Source: elimparcial
