++ The Interior Secretariat informed public opinion that on Sunday public security forces peacefully took over the Cananea mine in Sonora, to put an end to a miners strike that had been going on since July 2007, and which the Labor Secretariat had declared illegal in January 2008… The secretariat said that no one was hurt in the operation and that it was legally backed, by the Federal and State Public Prosecutor’s Offices.
++ But miners had another story to tell. A spokesman for the miners, Antonio Navarrete, said that the federal police raid at the Cananea mine left two miners wounded with bullet wounds, two miners went missing and children and women were also hurt in the melee.
++ Deputy Governance Secretary at the Interior Secretariat Roberto Gil Zuarth denied that the operation left people with bullet wounds.
++ And within hours of the operation federal police and miners were clashing on the streets of Cananea… There were no wounded from the clashes.
++ Federal, state and municipal authorities announced the “Everybody for Cananea” program to reactive the mine with an immediate investment of two billion pesos… They offered severance payments to workers six times higher than stipulated by law… Labor Secretary Javier Lozano said that payments to former miners at the Cananea mine would be available immediately.
++ The leader of a group called Miners Union National Renovation Front, Carlos Pavón, blamed the attack on Cananea on Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, the miners’ leader who fled the country, for failing to reach a civilized agreement to resolve the strike.
++ The miners union and the electricians’ union broke off talks with the federal government after the operation to end the strike at the Cananea mine.
++ Grupo México, one of the world’s top copper companies, said federal and state authorities in Sonora were revising the Cananea mine to see the harm it might have suffered.
++ Meanwhile, Coahuila police also took over installations at Pasta de Conchos Mine 8 in San Juan de Sabinas, Coahuila.
++ Meanwhile, in an unrelated case, the Guerrero Attorney General’s Office confirmed that 55 bodies had been pulled out of a mine shaft in Taxco, that was some kind of clandestine grave.
++ PRI lawmakers lodged a complaint against President Felipe Calderón with the Special Prosecutor’s Office on Electoral crimes accusing the president of interfering with the election in Oaxaca, by funneling federal funds to the campaign.
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