Silent Fury
Silent Fury On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compa a de Santa Gertrudis--the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company--may…
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Silent Fury
On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compa a 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. Company representatives hastened to assert that "no more than ten" men remained inside the mineshafts, and that all ten were most certainly dead. After a brief evacuation, the mouths of the shafts were sealed.
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. Yet when the mine was opened six days later, the death toll was not ten, but eighty-seven. His work is an act of restitution for the victims and their families,