Photo: Reform Agency
For: EFE
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador , thanked the Mexican magnate Carlos Slim for offering to repair completely the section of the rugged Line who built his company Grupo Carso.
“He (Slim) came yesterday to express to me that he will be in charge of the reconstruction of the entire section ”, the president stressed from the National Palace.
Slim, whose company Grupo Carso built part of the line 12 of the Mexico City metro that collapsed on May 3 and left 26 dead, offered this Tuesday to the Mexican president to rehabilitate the part that collapsed, but defended that the work was well built.
López Obrador thanked the Mexican magnate for his willingness to fix the work “regardless of whether the subway was well or badly built, or the section that corresponded to your company.”
“Regardless of whether he has evidence that he claims to have. And I believe him, that he delivered the work, they received it and it was a finished work. Regardless of this and the fact that the judicial authority has to carry out the investigation, “said the Mexican president, very close to Carlos Slim.
He said that Slim will take care that the work “remains with all the necessary security” and “without costing the people”, without asking for “any budget”.
“It is his commitment” and he will not wait for the “judicial question”, so it will be sought that in a year the line “for the benefit of the people” is working again, as López promised Obrador recently.
“I thank you and hopefully other businessmen will act that way,” said the president.
He reiterated that Slim “is going to pay everything” because “he committed to this.”
López Obrador specified that it is only for that section of the line, but he hoped that the rest of the companies involved would do the same.
The tragedy in which they died 26 people and a hundred were injured occurred on May 3 at night when an elevated bridge of the line collapsed in the Tláhuac mayor’s office, in the southeast of the capital, causing the fall of a train with passengers.
In mid-June, The Norwegian company DNV presented the first of its three reports on the causes of the accident in which it pointed to “structural failures” related to construction.
In mid-June, the Norwegian company DNV presented the first of its three reports on the causes of the accident in which he pointed to “structural failures” related to construction.
The companies that were involved in the construction of the work were Carso, ICA and Alstom, the latter as the wagon manufacturer.
Continue Reading: morning section “Who’s who in the lies of the week” against “fake news”
