The Heart and the Monster: A Journey to Cananea

Directed by Daniela Piña Ontiveros (2002)

The director takes a personal journey back to her place of birth and family home to Cananea, Mexico--the town that sparked the Mexican Revolution through mining labor strikes in 1905. In her narrative and through interviews with family members she explores the deterioration of this once thriving mining town due to the privatization of the second largest copper mine in the world, Mexicana de Cananea, and globalization of the company Grupo Mexico whom owns the mine. The effects the mine has had on her family economically, environmentally, and socially speak of the injustices endured by the town as a whole and the effects of the globalization of the mining industry felt by people in third world countries around the world.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Canena
• Sonora
• Mexico
• Arizona
• Daniela Ontiveros
• Groupo Mexico
• copper mine
• workers rights
• environment
• history

[dannielaguirre]

& el señor piñaa me regañaba muchoo era mui gruñon con los niños qe viviamos ahi

[dannielaguirre]

yo vivi ahiii & no me acuerdo de ella hce como 16 años

[laasiqueiros]

Really good video and its good that you took the time to go back to try and make some conclusions. You did a good job on this video but now what can we do to change that?