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LatinNews Daily - 31 July 2019

In brief: Mexico union leader says tougher mining laws coming

* Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, a senator for Mexico’s ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) party and leader of the national mine and metal workers’ union Los Mineros, has said that Mexico will seek to toughen mining laws and apply sanctions to companies that fail to comply with legislation in order to develop and relaunch the sector in an environmentally friendly way. In an interview with national daily, Milenio, published on 29 July, Gómez Urrutia said there were plans to withdraw concessions from companies that do not comply with the law. However, he clarified that these sanctions would be implemented gradually, from “partial withdrawal” of the concession to complete loss if the companies do not comply. In his interview, Gómez Urrutia said that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador agrees, stating that “we must maintain a policy of zero tolerance for companies that put people’s lives and health at risk”.

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