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A scandalous cover-up: the El Bordo mining tragedy of 1920

27 June 2020

9:00 AM

27 June 2020

9:00 AM

A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire Yuri Herrera, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman

And Other Stories, pp.120, 8.99

On the morning of 10 March 1920, on the edge of the city of Pachuca in central Mexico, 87 miners died in a subterranean fire. Only no one is quite sure of the exact number because melted corpses are difficult to count. Nor is there any clarity on when the fire started or what caused it.

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