Summary Of Antonio Valdez Guilty

When determining who is to blame, an obvious target that appears is the Coyotes, and more specifically Mendez, his real name being Antonio Lopez Ramos, the guide for the Welton 26, however much of the evidence supposedly proving Mendez’s guilt are weak testimonies or reasons that can be traced to issues on a larger scale. A common argument made accusing Mendez was that he did not prepare the Welton 26 for their journey, he did not warn them of the dangers, nor did he tell them to bring adequate water. In actuality, Mendez himself was not all that prepared for the journey. Mendez only received training about the trail, nothing else, he was not warned about the dangers of the desert, nor what to expect from a prolonged stay, so how can he warn his group if he himself didn’t know.
When Mendez informed his boss on this, he sent two others two in his place; “It says a lot about Maradona that he has to be replaced by two other [guides.]” (Urrea 100). Having lost his valuable partner, and saddled with two more liabilities, Mendez is forced into a leadership role. Under the pressures of the Coyotes, the growing anger and frustrations of the group, Santos’s mutiny, and the heat exhaustion resulting from the terrible conditions of the insufferable Devil’s Highway, it is completely reasonable that Mendez would make a mistake, all these varying pressures and the delirium caused by the deathly heat can easily explain Mendez’s impaired judgment and lack of care for the Welton 26. The various circumstances Mendez found himself in and the conditions of the trip made a sort of perfect storm in which so much went