Mexico miners strike on anniversary of tragic mine blast

Miners from all over Mexico held a strike yesterday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of a deadly mine explosion in Coahuila. Sixty-five miners died and their relatives protested the lack of a through investigation against the Coahuila mine owner as well as the woeful lack of safety regulations so that the tragedy in Coahuila does not happen again.

Our coverage of the February 2006 Coahuila mine disaster can be read here, here, and here.

Links- San Jose Mercury News, Reuters, The Latin Americanist

Image- signonsandiego.com (Relatives of the miners killed in the Coahuila mine blast pray at an alter)