Oliver Balch

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

When fire broke out at the Mexican mine, the owners left workers to burn alive – and denied all culpability, says Yuri Herrera

Mine in Pachuca, Mexico c.1910. Credit: Alamy 
issue 27 June 2020
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  • A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire

    Yuri Herrera, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman

    And Other Stories, pp. 120, £8

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