Mexican Interior Minister Killed in Helicopter Crash

by James Cannes in History, November 12, 2011

The Mexican Interior Minister Jose Francisco Blake was killed in a helicopter crash. With him died the other seven occupants.

Soldiers and investigators examine the wreckage of the helicopter, which crashed Mexico’s interior minister.

The Mexican Home Secretary Francisco Blake Mora has been killed at a helicopter crash on Friday. The helicopter with eight people on board has crashed in a Mexico town close to the state of Morelos and there were no survivors, the spokeswoman of president Felipe Calderon, Alejandra Sota, said. In view of the tense security situation in Mexico Blake Mora was regarded as the second most important man in the government of Calderon. Calderon explained the fall has been an accident presumably. At the time of the accident the helicopter is flown by fog, but it is determined in all directions. Mexico has friend lost a tall patriot ” and I love one “, an obviously busy Calderon said at an address to the nation. “He was not only an exemplary minister but also an exemplary Mexican.” The prime minister emphasized Blake Moras Hubschrauber has been guarded by the safety strengths round-the-clock. In addition, he has only recently been waited. Blake Mora is already the second Home Secretary whom Calderon loses through a fall: A Learjet fell away with the head of department then, Juan Camilo Mourino, and another 15 people in 2008. For many Mexicans Blake Mora was the face of Mexico’s fight against the drug cartels. According to authority details the permanent secretary for right and human rights, Felipe Zamora, also was under the killed. U.S. president Barack Obama expressed Calderon by phone be condolences out. The Hubschrauber started clock from a military base around 08.45 in Mexico town and disappeared of the radar ten minutes later as Minister of Transport Dionisio Perez Jacome explained at a press conference. Aeronautics experts have asked the government from the USA and France to support the inquiries. Blake Mora should be buried on (today’s) Saturday. Calderon cancelled public appearances, under this a journey to the APEC summit on Hawaii next week.