Miners from section 65 demand a definitive solution to the strike in Cananea at the National Palace

jared laurels

Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, April 20, 2022, p. 13

After more than 80 days of negotiations without agreements in the Ministry of the Interior, the leadership of section 65 of the mining union went to the National Palace on Tuesday to demand that the head of the agency, Adán Augusto López Hernández, attend them directly. in order to achieve a definitive resolution to the strike at the Cananea mine, Sonora, which is about to celebrate its 15th anniversary.

Nabor Duarte Herrera, local general secretary of said organization, demanded the restitution of the human rights of the miners, including having decent work, as well as an exemplary punishment for Grupo México, and talk to a higher authority who will give us a solution background to the labor conflict.

On the instructions of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Leticia Ramírez, director of Citizen Attention of the Presidency of the Republic, attended the workers, and assured this newspaper that the friendly dialogue go on and has not broken.

He asked the miners to discuss the issue with the Government to find out what path does he proposeand promised to contact the workers today in order to let them know the route to advance in the solution of the conflict.

On January 21, the national leader of the mining union, Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, reached an agreement with the Secretary of the Interior, López Hernández, to establish a work group, after which the road blockade in Cananea that lasted four years was lifted. days. However, the miners said, there is no progress.

We want the government to help us and for the directors of Grupo México to sit down and talk to solve this problem.Duarte Herrera demanded.

He stressed that although Senator Gómez Urrutia has shown willingness and openness to dialogue, the company owned by Germán Larrea maintains his closedness of never wanting to negotiate the problem with the miners.

Antonio Navarrete, spokesman for section 65, pointed out that, while the friendly dialogue requested by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation filed criminal complaints against him and Heriberto Verdugo, delegate of the executive committee of the mining union, with the aim stop a solution in the negotiations that are carried out in the Bucareli dependency.