“We need help, if they are not going to die and my son is waiting for me”

Renzo Spasiano (20) is one of two Argentines who are part of the crew of the yacht MOI Guadalupe, who disappeared in the Caribbean eleven days ago. Despite the fact that over the hours the situation became more and more difficult, his family keep hope intact to find them all “healthy”.

Argentinian Carlos Juárez, Mexican Martín Vega Argaez and Cuban Denis Manuel Fernández Díaz were also traveling on the yacht.

“We have no evidence of anything. I have traveled on private planes to Nicaragua. I have looked for it everywhere, but the Gulf of Mexico is very large. We need the United States to help us. or hire a company dedicated to search and rescue, because if they are not going to die, and my son is waiting for me“he said desperately to Bugle Renzo’s father, Luis Spasiano.

Luis underlined the work carried out by the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Argentine consulate in Mexico: “They are putting pressure on the Mexican navy, because yesterday [por este viernes] they wanted to quit the search and report them as missing and ready. The passive search was also ending, as they said the planes had to go to other rescue.

At that time, the young man’s father assures us that the Mexican navy “He didn’t really go out to look for them”, because “they were only looking for 200 kilometers around Cozumel”.

“The only thing I know is that I have to look for them, I have to find them and I have to bring them back healthy. I feel they are fine and I need help, because We no longer have the financial resources to continue the specific research“said Renzo’s father.

As confirmed by this newspaper by the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the coming hours, an official communication from the Argentine Embassy in Mexico will be published “counting all the efforts and measures that are being made to continue the research”.

However, from the Palacio San Martín, they clarified that the government of Mexico has indicated that “the usual research protocols have already been followed”.

Renzo, who will be 21 on January 16, is lost in the Caribbean Sea, with three other people, since Tuesday, September 28. The ship left Mexico on September 15 to bring humanitarian aid to Haiti, but on the return trip to that country the ship lost all contact and nothing is known about it. He was about halfway there.

“Right now we are a family, we are working together to find them. All the sailors of Mexico are added to it and define it as ‘the family of the sea’ “, describes Luis Spasiano.

Mexico’s actions

Renzo’s family consider the main reason the boat could not be located is because “The Navy does not run the plane” to locate the yacht.

“I have no political ideology, but I must say that since Chancellery and Consulate they support us. They took it personally, beyond the diplomatic and the political. they move a lot“, said the father of the missing young man.

Regarding the actions of the Mexican government, Spasiano described: “The Mexican Navy don’t even tell us what he’s doing. They are in passive research. The plane is stopped while waiting for news, they are not going out to look for it. “

In addition, he felt that there was “ineffectiveness” on the part of the local government in finding his son and the three other crew members. And he sketched: “We traveled from Holbox to Cabo Catoche the day before yesterday [por este jueves]. On the road there are two lighthouses. I stopped at the headlights to ask what news was there. I asked the head of the lighthouse if there was any sign of [la embarcación MOI] Guadalupe and the man, who is from the navy, He looked at me like I said ‘what are you talking about’. I was not aware of what was going on. “

“So I said to him ‘How do they know nothing if there is an official alert and a report from the Secretary of the Navy who has come down to all the harbourmaster’s offices?’ I asked him if it was new and he said no. They were all supposed to be on alert. At that time, we had been looking for ten days. The same thing happened to me in both lighthouses, that’s part of the inefficiency “, Spasiano continued.

In this context, the families of the crew of the missing yacht carried out a presentation to a prosecutor’s office in Mexico for the disappearance of the four people missing at sea.

“The prosecution is stunned, because it says that they never had a case like this. They tell us that they will activate all the media. He’s been to court before because we don’t really know what happened. They are missing, the Navy reports nothing ”, explained Luis Spasiano.

After desperately asking for help in locating her son, she said: “If the United States were looking, we would find them right away, but I don’t know where to talk to get them added. “

“The United States is not participating in the researchThey have knowledge because they have been warned in several ways, ”said Renzo’s father, who also added that a relative is in the United States making arrangements.

The father of the young man lost at sea since September 28, concluded: “Now what we need to do is get help from the US Coast Guard. “

LGP