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 SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico (AP) - Using picks, shovels and even their hands, hundreds of coal miners have worked around the clock for a year to recover the bodies of 65 co-workers lost in an explosion. So far, frustrated searchers have only found two.
Just as frustrating, for some, is how little has been done to improve mine safety nationwide, despite an outcry over the tragedy.
The disaster at Pasta de Conchos mine has raised important questions about almost every aspect of mine operations in Mexico, from government oversight, to the integrity of the miners' union and the pressures miners are under to disregard built-in safety measures.
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