America Yamilet Sánchez and Adal Jair Marcos, the 2 useless younger folks after the conflict of the ‘Cuauhtémoc’ college ship in New York | EUROtoday

Both had been younger, disciplined, clever and employees who fulfilled one in all their desires of life: touring inside the varsity ship Cuauhtémocthat dream that will journey 15 international locations in 254 days. A journey within the seas to which only a few on the earth can aspire. And but America Yamilet Sánchez, 20, initially from Xalapa, Veracruz, and Adal Jair Marcos, 22, from San Mateo del Mar, in Oaxaca, succeeded. Their deaths, after crashing the ship in opposition to the Brooklyn bridge, this Saturday, have brought about shock in Mexico and a sense of injustice and frustration of their households. “They handle it as an accident, but I don’t know,” stated Rocío Hernández, mom of America Yamilet on an interview on Monday, aiming at negligence.

On the banks of the emblematic Brooklyn bridge, in New York, a mariachi sings Cute Cielito The morning of this Monday. In the background, the voices of some Mexicans who hum, in tears, one of the in style songs of the Mexican custom are heard. They are a part of a bunch of people that have approached to pay a tribute to the 2 useless younger folks and the injured of the accident. Cardboard with condolences and a number of other branches of flowers and candles body the steel fence.

About 4,000 kilometers away, the morning of this Monday, the mother and father of a few of the cadets that had been on board the ship, and that had been injured, waited for his or her youngsters in Veracruz. The mom of one of many companions who shared Camarote with América Yamilet confesses to the native media cameras that on the time the accident occurred, the mom of America referred to as him to ask if he knew what had simply occurred. “She did know where her daughter was going to be, she did tell her where she had to be: at the top,” he says.

According to the primary testimonies, América Yamilet was in one of many masts of the ship simply when the ship hit the bridge. From the primary hours after the incident, his household claimed that the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) helped them transfer to get better their daughter’s physique and warranted that they realized concerning the tragedy by the media.

America Yamilet was the delight of his household. I used to be about to show 21, and since childhood, when she grew to become a superb swimmer, she needed to be a naval engineer, a profession she already performed and of which she solely had a yr to conclude. In the home the place he grew up, within the Emiliano Zapata neighborhood, within the Veracruz capital, his family members positioned photographs of when he turned 15, and turned candles whereas ready for the arrival of his physique. “He was in what he wanted, he was always clear that dream, and with the help of his parents and grandparents he was granted. It was where he wanted to be,” says one in all his aunts.

Adal Jair Maldonado Marcos was 23 years previous. He was already a sailor, and for a couple of months he was touring as a part of the crew on the varsity ship. It was initially from San Mateo del Mar, a inhabitants positioned within the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, through which nearly all of the inhabitants belongs to the autonombramed native teams akin to Ikoots, Huaves or Mareños.

Under these traditions might be obtained in a personal ceremony, because the household has knowledgeable the municipal president of San Mateo del Mar, Raúl Rangel: “We have the entire dismayed municipality … [la muerte] of a young man who barely started his dream of being a sailor, ”he stated Monday for the chain Telemundo. Also on the morning of this Monday, the governor of Oaxaca, in session along with his cupboard, has requested to maintain a minute of silence earlier than the loss of life of the younger sailor and has assured that he’s involved along with his household to hold out the mandatory efforts.

Maldonado Marcos, in accordance with native media, adopted his dream of being a marine, like his father. He studied on the Federal High School of the Isthmus (ESFI) of Salina Cruz, in Oaxaca, and in 2021 he entered the Heroic Military Naval School. “The sea saw him born and the sea witnessed his life delivery … We all know him we will remember for his example of an intelligent young man,” their teammates printed.

SEMAR has formally reported that 22 crew members had been injured, 19 of them obtain medical consideration in native hospitals, and from them, three current “consideration wounds.” “No element fell into the water, so the activation of rescue operations was not necessary,” they printed this Sunday.

Aboard the Cuauhtémoc 64 girls and 213 males moved. The ship sailed from the port of Acapulco, in Guerrero, on April 6, with the mission of “exalting the marine spirit” and “bringing the message of peace and good will of the Mexican people” to the world. On his journey he was going to go to 22 ports in 15 international locations. Before arriving in New York, he had been in Jamaica and Cuba. The journey included 170 days within the sea and 84 days in ports.