Mexico’s highest court will examine violations against workers from the Mineros’ union, committed by the Canadian company Orla Mining, which has pressured them to join a pro-company protection union.
President Sheinbaum revealed Canada wants to expand investment in Mexico, while she also emphasized the need for Canadian mining companies to comply with environmental regulations.
Canadian mining company Equinox Gold has been extracting gold from Guerrero for decades. Now it wants to close the Los Filos mine, leaving behind environmental degradation, exploitation and emiseration, while pocketing big profits.
Vancouver’s Orla Mining owns the Camino Rojo open-pit mine in Zacatecas, and has been conspiring with criminal elements to break Los Mineros union and attack its organizers.
Jaime Pulido León was a mine worker and leader of a local of the Los Mineros mineworkers’ union. Was. Death threats drove him and the union out of the mine owned by Canadian corp Orla Mining and even out of the state of Zacatecas.
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