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La Nave de los Monstruos (1960)
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(via 1906 strike signaled change at the Cananea Mines operated by Col. Greene)
Mexican workers gathered in an open area during the 1906 strike at the Cananea Mines. It was a pivotal point ahead of the Mexican Revolution.
…Mexico’s president, Porfirio Diaz, supported foreign investment in his country and the opening of formerly inaccessible regions to commercial enterprises such as mining. But his 30-year rule over Mexico was considered by many of his countrymen to be imperial, and an underground labor movement with connections abroad sought his removal from office.
The strike began in the lumberyard of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Co. and ended in gunfire and violence that left more than 20 miners and six company men dead. Greene called in Capt. Thomas Rynning of the Arizona Rangers along with 275 Bisbee volunteers to quell the strike.
On the Mexican side, 75 rurales (a federal rural militia) arrived under the command of Russian-Mexican cavalry commander Lt. Col. Kosterlitzky. The strike ended after two days, but the unpopularity of the Diaz government led to the Mexican Revolution in 1910…
