Meet the coal miner risking it all in Mexico
By Reuters
16 October 2022 |
1:31 pm
In his twenty-one years of mining coal in Mexico’s northern state of Coahuila, Juan Briones knows each time he descends the narrow shaft, he’s risking death to make a living.
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