“Mexican Supreme Court Postpones Ruling On Rio Sonora Disaster Fund”, 8 de Agosto de 2019

…This week marks five years since Grupo México’s Buenavista copper mine spilled 11 million gallons of toxic waste into the Bacanuchi and Sonora rivers…Mexico’s Supreme Court was expected to rule Wednesday on a case about the mining company’s operation of a trust fund meant to help victims of the spill…Instead, the court postponed the decision. It will now rule on this case in conjunction with two other lawsuits related to the disaster trust fund. “We’re taking that as good news,” said Luis Miguel Cano, the lawyer representing victims of the spill in the case for the nonprofit PODER…Cano said combining the cases gives the court more information about the trust and time to reflect before making its final decision. The case before the court Wednesday focused on the administration of the trust, which victims say was not adequate to provide remediation for heath and environmental issues caused by the spill…The overarching goal of the cases, Cano said, is to insist that residents of the area affected by the spill be allowed to participate in the formation and administration of the trust and to determine what needs to be done to fix issues caused by the disaster…