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A carregar... A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Firepor Yuri Herrera
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A las siete de la mañana del 10 de marzo de 1920 se declaró un incendio en la mina El Bordo, en el estado mexicano de Hidalgo. Unas horas más tarde se dio por terminada la evacuación y se cerró el tiro de la mina para favorecer la extinción del incendio, previa declaración por parte de autoridades, médicos y representantes de la compañía minera. Seis días más tarde, se accedió de nuevo a la mina para retirar los cadáveres: se calculaba que habían muerto unos diez mineros; sin embargo, una vez dentro, no sólo descubrieron que había ochenta y siete cadáveres, sino que todavía quedaban siete mineros con vida. Yuri Herrera realiza una minuciosa reconstrucción histórica (sin ficción alguna) sobre lo sucedido en esas primeras horas y durante los días siguientes, y nos muestra la complicidad entre ciertas autoridades y la prensa servil mientras bajo tierra «unos hombres se descomponían y otros luchaban por su vida». Mentiras y más mentiras recorren este texto apabullante, y sobre ellas se alza la voz de lo que realmente ocurrió. Ya en las primeras páginas, el autor deja clara la voluntad de la obra: «El silencio no es la ausencia de historia, es una historia oculta bajo una forma que es necesario descifrar». No se trata de una tragedia local: lo acontecido en la mina El Bordo ha sucedido, y sigue sucediendo, en muchos lugares del mundo. Un relato real fascinante. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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"On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compan?i?a de Santa Gertrudis -- the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company -- may have committed murder. The alert was first raised at six in the morning: a fire was tearing through the El Bordo mine. After a brief evacuation, the mouths of the shafts were sealed. Company representatives hastened to assert that "no more than ten" men remained inside the mineshafts, and that all ten were most certainly dead. Yet when the mine was opened six days later, the death toll was not ten, but eighty-seven. And there were seven survivors. A century later, acclaimed novelist Yuri Herrera has reconstructed a workers' tragedy at once globally resonant and deeply personal: Pachuca is his hometown. His work is an act of restitution for the victims and their families, bringing his full force of evocation to bear on the injustices that suffocated this horrific event into silence."-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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It's a passionate, well-written, meticulously researched report on an atrocity that should be remembered.
The callous actions and deceit that flowed from the moment disaster struck, leading to so many more dying, and the way blame was shifted onto the dead themselves, happily corroborated and elaborated on by a willing press that ultimately lead to plaudits and renown for the guilty and no ceremony or human regard for their charred victims' remains, discarded without a thought, just like their lives, should stay with us.
This is capitalism and the authority of the state. Think how much else that is kept from you and you refuse to see.
I am very glad this tale is being told and hope those exploited in life and death are granted some peace. A peace we should never allow those whose hands our necks rest in. ( )