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A Silent Fury - The El Bordo Mine Fire (Paperback)
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A Silent Fury - The El Bordo Mine Fire (Paperback)
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On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compania de Santa
Gertrudis - the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of
the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company - may have
committed murder. The alert was first raised at six in the morning:
a fire was tearing through the El Bordo mine. After a brief
evacuation, the mouths of the shafts were sealed. Company
representatives hastened to assert that "no more than ten" men
remained inside the mineshafts, and that all ten were most
certainly dead. Yet when the mine was opened six days later, the
death toll was not ten, but eighty-seven. And there were seven
survivors. A century later, acclaimed novelist Yuri Herrera has
reconstructed a workers' tragedy at once globally resonant and
deeply personal: Pachuca is his hometown. His work is an act of
restitution for the victims and their families, bringing his full
force of evocation to bear on the injustices that suffocated this
horrific event into silence.
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