AMLO acknowledges that 31 people are still missing after Hurricane Otis

MEXICO CITY – The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, acknowledged this Thursday that 31 remain missing after the hit of Hurricane Otis five weeks ago and most of them are at sea, which has sparked protests by their relatives to intensify their search.

“The search for the missing continues and the Navy has an operation throughout the bay, in boats that sank, there are 31 people, the majority are thought (to be) at sea and they continue with divers with a special operation, in the search,” declared the president in his daily press conference.

López Obrador promised to continue supporting Acapulco, the most affected city and one of the most touristic in the country, after five weeks of Hurricane Otis, which left 50 dead after making landfall on October 25 in the southern state of Guerrero. where it broke the intensification record for a cyclone in Mexico.

During his visit last week to the affected area, families protested to question the search efforts of the president, who has received questions about the official number of victims and the late care of the victims in Acapulco and Coyuca de Benítez, the two most damaged.

In particular, they denounced that the authorities have not searched for dozens of sailors who were lost at sea.

“Of course, the relatives of the victims, those who lost their lives, the relatives of the missing, are being cared for, they are participating, along with the Navy, the Navy, in the search for their relatives,” the leader.

The Mexican president, who has promised to “get Acapulco back on its feet” by Christmas, maintained that his government is “moving forward with the entire construction plan” and that things are “returning to normal.”

“There are around 40,000 public servants, civil and military, and progress is being made, yesterday support began to be provided to families for cleaning and this will continue until the 7th (of December), and from there they begin to deliver the funds for the construction of the homes,” he stated.

On November 1, the Government estimated the reparations and social support at 61,313 million pesos (more than $3,500 million), but the Fitch agency estimated the catastrophic losses at $16,000 million and the business chambers forecast up to 300,000 million pesos ( almost $17.4 billion dollars).