Canadian mining company employees worked amid gunfire, Mexican cartel checkpoints, says family member

Feb 12, 2026 - 17:00
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Canadian mining company employees worked amid gunfire, Mexican cartel checkpoints, says family member
A soldier with a very large machine gun sits in the back of a pick-up truck.

Vizsla Silver Corp.'s workers laboured in an environment punctured by gunfire, cartel checkpoints and drones, says the brother of a geologist with the Canadian mining company in Mexico, who was among five people found dead after they were kidnapped by a suspected faction of the Sinaloa cartel.