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‘They’re waiting till we die of cancer’: 10 years on, Mexico’s worst mining disaster still poisons lives
Just outside Ures, a desert town in north-west Mexico, a copse of palo verde trees blooms around a concrete compound. It is unpainted, unfinished and overgrown. Inside, plasterboard walls have crumbled to the floor between scattered mounds of horse manure. …