Her 12-year-old son took the Metro to buy her a Mother’s Day present. He never returned
LA TimesLast Monday, Brandon Giovanni decided to accompany his stepfather on the Metro to his evening shift in a restaurant downtown. The elevated section of Mexico City’s metro collapsed late Monday killing at least 23 people and injuring at least 79, city officials said. “Mamá, we’re headed to the Periférico station,” an animated Brandon Giovanni replied when his mother called on his cellphone about 10:15 p.m., as he and his stepfather were headed back home on the Metro Line 12. Monday’s crash was the third fatal incident in a 14-month period for a heavily subsidized system that the Metro’s 2018-2030 Master Plan showed to be in “deterioration” and in “urgent” need of investment and modernization. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told reporters that “nothing would be hidden” adding: “No lies, no robberies, no betrayal of the people.” But the left-wing president, who was elected in 2018 on an anti-corruption platform and routinely blames corrupt “conservative” adversaries for the nation’s problems, has refrained from citing irregularities in the construction of Line 12.
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