BOGOTA, Colombia — THEY WERE SENT TO THEIR DEATHS FOR DIRTY COAL. In a gruesome finale, the sixth and final body was pulled from the hellscape of the Mata Siete mine Saturday, concluding a recovery operation that exposes a chilling truth: these men were KILLED BY NEGLECT as much as by a methane explosion.
Officials call it an “informal” mine. We call it a DEATH TRAP that regulators KNEW ABOUT AND FAILED TO STOP. Shocking documents reveal this pit operated with an expired permit and was slapped with a closure order OVER FIVE YEARS AGO in March 2019. Yet, the digging—and the dying—continued unimpeded. Where was the enforcement? Who profited while these miners breathed lethal gas?
This isn’t just a tragic accident; it’s CORPORATE AND REGULATORY MANSLAUGHTER. The very agency meant to protect workers now issues sterile social media updates while families bury their loved ones. This explosion in Guacheta is a SYMPTOM of a rotten system that values cheap fuel and black-market profits over human life, where miners are treated as disposable machinery.
Each body recovered is a damning indictment of a country willing to sacrifice its poor in the shadows of illegal pits. The investigation promised will likely bury the truth deeper than the coal itself. How many more sealed closure orders are out there, ticking time bombs waiting to claim the next six souls?
The real explosion was one of accountability, and the silence in its aftermath is deafening.
Author: Kayitsi.com
