Miners file murder charges against Grupo Mexico
A Mexican union has filed murder charges against mining company Grupo Mexico and the government after 65 miners were killed last month in an explosion at a coal mine.
Mexico’s miners’ and metalworkers’ union said late on Thursday it formally accused Grupo Mexico, Labor Minister Francisco Salazar and two mine inspectors of homicide.
The workers died after a methane explosion at the Pasta de Conchos mine in the northern state of Coahuila on Feb. 19.
Union leaders say Grupo Mexico , the world’s No. 3 copper miner, ignored safety concerns but the company has denied negligence.
Co-workers gave up rescue efforts after digging for six days in search of the miners, some of them almost 1.5 miles (2.5 km) underground.
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Mexico Says 65 Miners Were Killed in Blast, Universal Reports
The 65 miners trapped inside a northern Mexico mine on Feb. 19 died instantly when an explosion elevated temperatures to more than 600 degrees Celsius (1,112 Fahrenheit), El Universal reported, citing Labor Minister Francisco Javier Salazar.
Salazar said yesterday in San Juan de Sabinas, Mexico, that the government will investigate the cause of the accident and the mine will stay closed for now, Universal reported. The mine is owned by Grupo Mexico SA.
The government had suspended rescue attempts on Feb. 24 because of dangerously high levels of lethal gas
Explosion traps dozens of miners in northern Mexico
An explosion Sunday at a mine in northern Mexico injured several miners and trapped dozens more below ground, an emergency official said.
The explosion occurred just before dawn at a coal mine near the town of Sabinas, 85 miles southwest of Eagle Pass on the Mexico-U.S. border, said Daniel Romo of Coahuila state's emergency services.
Seven miners were being treated in hospital with bruises, broken bones and burns, he said, adding their injuries were not life-threatening.
Dozens more miners were still trapped underground, he said, although he didn't have an exact figure.
Grupo Mexico Urges Authorities to End 24-Day Copper Mine Strike
Grupo Mexico SA, the worlds seventh-largest copper producer, said it is urging authorities to arrest union members blocking work at a copper mine and concentrator in Mexico after a 24-day strike threatens to leave the company short for May copper deliveries.
Mexico City-based Grupo Mexico is losing daily production of about 1,100 metric tons of copper content in concentrate from what the company calls illegal work stoppages, said Juan Rebolledo, Grupo Mexicos spokesman, in a telephone interview. The company said last week it notified customers it may not make May
Mexico peasant ecologist freed in murder case
A peasant fighting logging in Mexico's mountains was cleared of murder charges and ordered freed on Thursday after 10 months in jail in a case that sparked international outcry over corruption in the courts.
Felipe Arreaga, 56, who has been held in a sweltering jail on the Pacific coast since November, was exonerated in the 1998 murder of the son of a powerful local landowner, said a rights group working in his defense.
"They declared him innocent," defense lawyer Mario Patron told Reuters by telephone from the courtroom.
Rights workers worldwide had said the charge was
Grupo Mexico Shuts San Martin Mine as Strike Lingers
Grupo Mexico closed its San Martin zinc mine because of a strike that has halted production since March, signaling labor disputes that have crimped world metal supplies wont end soon.
Its impossible to even hope that this is going to be resolved, spokesman Juan Rebolledo said in a television interview on TV Azteca. Thats why we closed it.
Lost production from San Martin and Grupo Mexicos La Caridad mine helped push copper to record prices on the London Metal Exchange this year, as some analysts forecast 2006 production will lag behind
American fugitive detained in Mexico
The nine-month search for a man wanted in the abduction and slaying of a Dallas restaurateur ended with an arrest in a Mexican resort town Friday.
Mexican federal authorities captured Edgar "Richie" Acevedo in Cabo San Lucas and were preparing to take the 25-year-old former waiter at an Oscar Sanchez family restaurant to Mexico City, Dallas police said.
FBI Special Agent Lori Bailey confirmed the arrest, but would not discuss details.
Sanchez was kidnapped the morning of Jan. 18 in what police believe was a staged car wreck in Dallas. His body was found in a field in
Bulgarian Murder in Mexico Goes Unpunished for 2 Years
The murder of Bulgaria-descended Marika Dimitrova, who was shot dead in the Mexican city of Leon at the end of 2003, has remained unpunished for two years already, the Mexican online edition "A.M." reported.
The incident took place near the school where the woman was teaching French and Spanish. Dimitrova was just about to get out of her car when a passing-by motorcyclist shot at her December 17 2003.
Two years after the murder the Mexican prosecutor's office has failed to arrest the killer.
Initially there have been speculations that the perpetrator
All declared dead in Mexican mine blast
The 65 men trapped by a Mexican coal mine explosion six days ago cannot have survived their ordeal underground and are all dead, mine owners say.
The Grupo Mexico company said that while no bodies have yet been found, tests showed there was almost no oxygen inside the mine's shafts and tunnels and no hope of finding survivors from the explosion last Sunday.
"We are going to move on to the hard task of the physical recovery of our miners ... so the families can start their mourning," said Xavier Garcia, a senior executive at Grupo
Mexico Mining Rescue Efforts Going SlowlyMexico Mining Rescue Efforts Going Slowly
Rescue workers searching for 65 coal miners trapped deep beneath the desert scrub of northern Mexico made excruciatingly slow progress Tuesday, working with picks and shovels as anguished relatives demanded information.
More than two days after a gas explosion filled tunnels with fallen rock, wood and metal, rescuers have found no sign of the workers either dead or alive in the Pasta de Conchos mine, about 85 miles southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas.
Crews wearing gas masks and oxygen tanks got through one wall of debris, only to encounter
America Movil, Grupo Mexico and Usiminas: Latin Equity Movers
Following are the stocks that are most active in Brazilian and Mexican markets. In Brazil, the preferred share is usually the company's most-traded class of stock.
The Bovespa index of the most-traded stocks on the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange rose 98.52, or 0.4 percent, to 27,178.62 at 10:38 a.m. New York time. Mexico's bolsa fell 19.54, or 0.1 percent, to 14,539.65.
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America Movil (AMXL MM), Latin America's biggest cell phone company, rose 6 centavos, or 0.5 percent, to 11.68 pesos, after falling 2.8 percent yesterday. Mexico reported that the economy expanded
