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Killings cast shadow over major Canadian business visit to Mexico
About 400 Canadian business leaders visited Mexico to strengthen trade ties despite kidnappings of 10 miners linked to a Vancouver-based firm, with five confirmed dead.
- On Monday, Dominic LeBlanc led about 400 Canadian industry representatives to Mexico City to deepen trade ties, emphasizing security as a priority.
- On January 23, ten mine workers were kidnapped from a silver mining project owned by Vizsla Silver, a Vancouver-based mining company, with five confirmed dead and others missing.
- LeBlanc announced the RCMP will double officials at the Canadian Embassy in Mexico this year, and Marcelo Ebrard called it `'intelligent'` to include security in talks.
- Officials made security a formal item in talks with Mexican counterparts, with Dominic LeBlanc stating `There's no better time than now to forge these new partnerships,` amid the recent kidnappings.
- Organized crime groups are suspected in the Sinaloa abduction tied to the Vizsla Silver project, amid Mexico's over 120,000 vanishings since the 1950s.
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