MISSING AUSTRALIAN WAS GOING TO MOVE TO MEXICO, SAYS GIRLFRIEND
The case of two Australian surfers, followed by internationally recognized media such as The Guardian and The Telegraph, highlighted the link between Sinaloa and drug trafficking.
She says that this was the first time that both her boyfriend and his friend were in Sinaloa. They sustained a long-distance relationship, Adam visiting occasionally. "We were going to meet together at the same place, nothing more than that this time he was not going to leave, basically. The day before I was supposed to meet him, he didn't answer me and that was strange - that's something he never did."
The discovery of a burned-out van in Navolato, Sinaloa, with two bodies inside, registered to two Australian tourists who had been reported missing, has caught the attention of international press concerning the dangerousness of Mexico.
Dean Lucas and Adam Cole (sic) were traveling from Edmonton, Canada to Mexico, intending to arrive in the city of Guadalajara on the 21st of November, but they never showed up.
They are examining the DNA of the burned Australians in the van, and the analysis will help to clarify whether the bodies belong to Dean Lucas and Adam Coleman. (note: this sentence implies that the bodies are definitively Australian, but that's more of a feature of Spanish grammar and the author's assumptions. As of now, DNA tests have not been finished and we don't know for sure the identities of the bodies)
Finally, Andrea said that for those close to Adam and Dean it's become in practicality an accepted fact that the two are dead based on available information, as well as the confirmation that the burned van was registered to the two surfers.
The Mexican woman Andrea Gómez, girlfriend of Adam Coleman, complained in an interview with news agency Associated Press that the Mexican authorities are not helping in this case. "But we keep hoping, because we still don't have the results (of DNA testing to identify the bodies)", she says. A day later, the police found a burned white van similar to that of Coleman and Lucas.
We cannot formally identify it (the van, I think?) in the sense that the physical condition in which they were found does not allow it. It had no license plates, and a call for help appeared through social media.
