Militarized Mining in Mexico
Submitted on December 27, 2011
By Dawn Paley - December 12, 2011
...Dante Valdez Jiminez was giving a teacher training class in an elementary school in Madera...But before he got through his lecture, he was interrupted by a group of 30 men...Valdez was savagely beaten in front of his students. While they beat him, his attackers yelled that he should keep his nose out of other people's business...The attack was political: Valdez is known for his work against Minefinders, a Vancouver-based company that operates an open-pit gold mine near Madera.
