By Conrad Landin, The Morning Star
As Mexico’s president is feted by the Queen and her government, Conrad Landin speaks to Mexican miners’ leader Napoleon Gomez Urrutia, whose life remains under constant threat
For nine years, Napoleon Gomez Urrutia has been a political exile from his homeland. But that hasn’t stopped him from leading one of Mexico’s most influential trade unions — the National Union of Mine, Metal, Steel and Allied Workers of the Mexican Republic, or Los Mineros for short.
Far from it — every day he chats on Skype to his union executive, talking pay disputes, conditions in one of the world’s most dangerous industries and taking on powerful corporations like Grupo Mexico (GM), the mining giant he accused of industrial homicide in 2006 after 65 of his members died in an explosion … more