World · Latin America · 18 hrs ago
Families criticize mining company over abducted workers in Mexico
In January, 11 men were abducted in Concordia, in Mexico’s Sinaloa state.
Most worked for or contracted with Vizsla Silver, a Canadian mining company exploring for silver in the area.
Ten of the men were later found dead in mass graves near El Verde, while engineer and geologist Francisco Antonio Esparza remains missing.
Families say they still do not know exactly what happened and criticize the pace of the investigation.
They also say Vizsla Silver and its Mexican legal entity, Minera Canam, have not given them enough support.
The company offered payments of $42,000 to each of nine families whose relatives were found dead.
Several families, including those of José Antonio Jiménez and Esparza, have started a protest campaign seeking answers and support.
Families of workers abducted in Sinaloa, Mexico, criticize mining company Vizsla Silver for what they describe as a lack of support.
Eleven men were reported missing after being taken in or near Concordia on January 23.
Bodies of 10 men were found in mass graves in El Verde, while 68-year-old engineer and geologist Francisco Antonio Esparza remains missing.
Nine of the men whose bodies were found were employees or contractors at Vizsla Silver’s mine.
The company offered two support-payment agreements to the families of nine workers, totaling $42,000 per family, according to the article.
- Who
- Families of the abducted men, including Priscila Murrieta and Alan Esparza, are criticizing Vizsla Silver and its Mexican legal entity, Minera Canam.
- What
- Families say the company has provided insufficient support and are challenging the slow pace of investigations into the abductions and killings.
- When
- The men were taken on January 23; families reviewed the case in early October.
- Where
- Concordia and El Verde, in Sinaloa, Mexico.
- Why
- Families say they lack information about what happened and criticize the company’s support and the pace of the investigations.
Families of the abducted workers
Vizsla Silver and Minera Canam
Support for families
Families of the abducted workers
Families criticize the company’s lack of support.
Vizsla Silver and Minera Canam
The company offered two “solidarity support payment” agreements to the families of nine workers whose bodies were found.
Investigations
Families of the abducted workers
Families challenge the slow pace of investigations and say they do not know exactly what happened on January 23.
Vizsla Silver and Minera Canam
Not stated.
When he told me that, I was like, ‘My God, it’s him!’
Criminals took men from a house rented by the company in Concordia, and another man was grabbed while waiting for a bus.
Priscila Murrieta waited at the Attorney General’s office in Mazatlán as authorities identified bodies recovered from mass graves in El Verde.
Murrieta and Alan Esparza reviewed the case in Mexico City with five other families and launched a protest campaign.
- Men reported missing
- 11
- Bodies found
- 10
- Man still missing
- Francisco Antonio Esparza, 68
- Location of mass graves
- El Verde, Sinaloa
- Company
- Vizsla Silver
- Payment offered
- $42,000 per family
Sources
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