Families of Canadian mining firm workers kidnapped in Mexico plan to file RCMP complaint
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The families of the workers of a Canadian mining firm kidnapped earlier this year by a suspected cartel commando squad in the violence-torn Mexican state of Sinaloa plan to file an RCMP complaint against the Vancouver-based company, their lawyer says.
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A view inside the gated residential compound of Vizsla Silver Corp., in Concordia, Mexico, about 35 kilometres east of Mazatlán. The site, now sealed by Sinaloa state's Attorney General's Office, is believed to be the place where 10 Vizsla Silver workers were kidnapped on Jan. 23, 2026. Nine of their bodies were found two weeks later. (Heriberto Luzanilla/CBC)
The families of the workers of a Canadian mining firm kidnapped earlier this year by a suspected cartel commando squad in the violence-torn Mexican state of Sinaloa plan to file an RCMP complaint against the Vancouver-based company, their lawyer says.
Canada's federal police force needs to probe whether Vizsla Silver Corp.'s on-site management had allegedly established some level of co-ordination with an organized armed group in a region, said Odracir Ricardo Espinoza, who represents the families of seven kidnapped workers.
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