Search for kidnapped Sinaloa mine workers intensifies

The hunt for 10 kidnapped excavation workers who disappeared past period successful the Concordia mountains successful the bluish authorities of Sinaloa has intensified considerably. 

In a societal media post, Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha said President Claudia Sheinbaum and Defense Minister General Ricardo Trevilla person ordered that the search-and-rescue cognition beryllium importantly reinforced.

Por instrucciones de la presidenta de México, Dra. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. (@Claudiashein), y del General Ricardo Trevilla, Secretario de Defensa Nacional (@Defensamx1), a partir de hoy, domingo 1 de febrero, se refuerza de manera importante el operativo de búsqueda de los…

— Rubén Rocha Moya (@rochamoya_) February 1, 2026

“The deployment adds 1,190 people: 800 Army personnel, 270 Special Forces, 100 National Guardsmen and 20 ministerial agents, successful summation to 3 equipped helicopters and 2 T6C-Texan aircraft,” helium wrote connected Saturday.

The 10 employees of Vizsla Silver, a Canadian mining company, went missing connected Jan. 23 from a lodging improvement adjacent the mine’s La Concordia task located astir 50 miles northeast of the Pacific Coast edifice metropolis of Mazatlán.

A 911 telephone was placed to the authorities connected Jan. 24 and Vizla Silver released a statement confirming the kidnapping connected Jan 28.

Vizsla Silver besides announced the impermanent suspension of activities astatine the excavation and its surroundings aft the disappearance of the 10 men — engineers, geologists and information unit — astatine slightest 8 of whom are Mexican nationals.

The authorities prosecutor’s bureau has offered nary nationalist statements but to accidental that a lawsuit record has been opened and an probe is underway.

Relatives of the missing men person denounced the deficiency of accusation from the authorities.

Canadian mining institution confirms wide kidnapping of employees successful Concordia, Sinaloa

“They conscionable archer america they haven’t heard anything, that they haven’t received immoderate reports,” said María Salazar, the woman of missing geologist Ignacio Aurelio Salazar. “It’s been [more than a week] and we don’t cognize thing astir our relatives; we are precise worried.”

Details of past month’s kidnapping are sparse. One mentation reported by the media indicates that the radical was kidnapped by an equipped commando.

“The mentation they provided is that they were successful their remainder country astatine 7:30 successful the morning, getting acceptable to spell to enactment [when they were taken],” Salazar told writer Ciro Gómez Leyva. 

The paper El País reported that the transgression radical apt liable for the kidnapping is portion of a compartment linked to Los Chapitos, a faction of the Sinaloa cartel loyal to the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. 

Residents of La Concordia told El País that this compartment has been waging a convulsive run for much than 2 months successful the Sierra Sur region, displacing much than 100 families since September 2024 erstwhile Los Chapitos and Los Mayitos — a rival Sinaloa Cartel faction — began warring.

With reports from El País, El Universal, La Jornada and El Financiero