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Cananea Copper Mine

29 Cananea

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29 Cananea
Jorge Morales, a striker from the Cananea copper mine, the largest in Mexico, describes the many unsafe conditions that endanger the health and safety of miners, to a group of supporters in Tucson, Arizona. The union at the mine, owned by Grupo Mexico, went on strike to demand that the conditions be improved.

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