Mexican Authorities Move to Crush Copper Strike [View All]

[nadinbrzezinski]

can Authorities Move to Crush Copper Strike
By David Bacon
t r u t h o u t | Report

Sunday 13 January 2008

Mexican labor authorities seized on technicalities to order an end to the strike at the country's largest copper mine in Cananea, Sonora, on Friday. The Mexican press reports that over 700 heavily armed agents of the Sonora state police arrived in Cananea just hours before the decision was announced, and agents of the Federal Preventative Police were sent to this tiny mountain town as well. Strikers report that the streets were filled with rocks and teargas, and 20 miners have been injured - some seriously - in the ensuing conflict. The union says that five strikers are missing.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011308A.shtml

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Ah the memories of HS History classes on the Mexican Revolution... flashback to my HS classes and the history of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. Care to guess what is seen as one of the trigger points?

You guessed it... the violent suppression of the cananea copper mine strike on orders of President Diaz in 1909... so if history fully repeats itself... Mexico will soon explode in civil war. (or at least openly recognized civil war)