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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 4 September 2019

In brief: López Obrador announces meeting to resolve mining disputes

* Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has announced that talks will take place between mining firm Grupo México, mining workers, and environmentalists over compensation to be paid by the firm for the environmental damage it has caused. The president revealed that he recently met with Germán Larrea, Grupo México’s CEO, to discuss this matter. There are unsettled grievances in the north-western state of Sonora after Grupo México’s Buenavistsa copper mine spilled 40,000 cubic metres of copper sulphate into the Sonora and Bacanuchi, rivers in 2014. In July this year, following a 3,000 cubic metre sulfuric acid spill in the Gulf of California, Mexico’s federal environmental protection agency (Profepa) announced the temporary partial closure of the maritime terminal of Guaymas, Sonora, owned by Grupo México.

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