![]() ![]() 3 when excavation work caused a tunnel wall to collapse. But Briones turned it down, saying he feared that giant pools of water in abandoned mines nearby could break through and flood it - which is just what happened Aug. His brother-in-law, Hugo Tijerina, had encouraged him to work at El Pinabete. He feels he has few options that can match the roughly $150 he takes home a week. He emerges later drenched in sweat.īriones lives in the town of Sabinas in the border state of Coahuila, where jobs are scarce. When he first goes down, he sometimes feels as if he can't breathe. "I didn't want the same thing to happen to him, where he goes to work in the mines with the risks."īriones, who began in the mines when he was just 14, works dozens of meters below ground with a helmet, gloves and steel-toed boots for protection, on alert for tumbling rocks, faulty pulleys, toxic gas and underground flooding. "It's a really tough job, especially because of the accidents," he said. "You have the need to survive, to take care of your family," the 35-year-old said in a recent interview at his home after his wife helped scrub off the black dust that had settled into his skin after a day in a sweltering mine.īriones has four sons, aged 6, 8, 10 and 15.Įven before the El Pinabete mine disaster, he urged his eldest, who has left school, to avoid the risky work to which he has dedicated the past two decades of his life. WINDOWS 10 REMEMBEAR OPENS AS SEE THROUGH PAGE FOR FREERegister now for FREE unlimited access to Register ![]()
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