US EditionKidnapping of Mexican Miners, the Latest Incident Against Much-Touted Security Improvements
Authorities found 10 bodies linked to abducted Canadian mine workers amid cartel faction conflict involving 'los Chapitos' and Ismael Zambada's loyalists, officials said.
- In the coastal mountains near Mazatlán, several towns appear largely abandoned amid escalating violence linked to rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel. In late January, 10 workers from a Canadian-owned silver and gold mine near Pánuco were abducted; five bodies have been found, while five others remain unidentified. According to local resident Fermín Labrador, many residents have fled out of fear since the cartel conflict intensified in September 2024, while others were effectively forced to leave.
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Abduction of Mexican mine workers raises doubts over touted security improvements
The abduction of 10 mine workers in Mexico's Sinaloa state has raised questions again about the government's touted security improvements.
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By AARON IBARRA and MARÍA VERZA CONCORDIA, Mexico (AP) — At least 12 villages in the Sierra de Concordia, in the southern part of Sinaloa state on Mexico’s Pacific coast, are nearly deserted, the silence broken only by the occasional passing truck. It was near one of these villages, Pánuco, that ten workers from a Canadian silver and gold mine were kidnapped in late January. Half have since been found, but dead. Most of the residents of these co…
With the slogan “The miners are in mourning”, hundreds of members of the sector, family members and friends demonstrated yesterday in the states of Sinaloa, Durango, Chihuahua, Sonora, Zacatecas, Hidalgo and San Luis Potosí, to demand justice and security guarantees for the union, after the deprivation of the liberty of 10 workers of the Canadian company Vizsla Silver, in Concordia, Sinaloa, on 23 January, five of whom were found lifeless.
SONORA, JANUARY 14.- This Saturday, Mrs.Maria Elena went out to march alongside hundreds of people in Sonora in protest at the disappearance of her husband Antonio Esparza, one of the miners deprived of liberty in Concordia, Sinaloa.The peaceful march, which was attended by about 1,500 people, began at 11 a.m. on the premises of the Association of Engineers of Mines, Metallurgists and Geologists of Mexico A.C., Sonora District, to reach the Metr…
The massive kidnapping of 10 miners in Sinaloa in January has exposed yet another edge of the security crisis that for years has hit the mining sector in Mexico, spurred by the explosion of the prices of silver and gold. Criminal organizations, which exercise territorial control in some of the most abundant areas of mineral and metal resources, extort domestic and foreign companies, raising production costs and their budgets in security. Compani…
Miners and their families marched in at least six states to demand justice for the murders and disappearances in Concordia, Sinaloa.
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