Mexico 1906

Synopsis

In the northern Mexican state of Sonora lies a quiet mining town called Cananéa. In 1906 this town witnessed a violent social struggle between labor and American capital. In June 1906 miners employed by Colonel William Greene, owner of the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, declared a work stoppage in the mines of this usually quiet town. As the workers went on strike over wages and salaries, Greene pleaded with the national government of Porfírio Díaz for help in forcing the striking workers to return to their jobs. The result was catastrophic, as Greene imported American troops from the neighboring American state of Arizona. As the troops were called in, violence broke out, and more than 10 miners were killed in the process. The social turmoil that would later become known as the Mexican Revolution had begun in this small mining...