Day: November 12, 2012

Blood on the Silver: The High Cost of Mining Concessions in Oaxaca

In the front room of Avigahil Vasquez’s Sanchez home in San Jose del Progreso, she’s installed half a dozen little phone booths used by town residents who have no phone of their own. Outside the windows above the telephones, the tree-lined street leads out to fields at the foot of cloud-topped hills. San Jose, at the edge of a valley an hour south of Oaxaca’s capital city, is a pretty town.

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