Mexican authorities are investigating whether Canadian mining company Vizsla Silver Corp. bears any responsibility in the suspected cartel kidnapping of 10 of its workers in Sinaloa, five of whom have since been found dead.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said the federal Attorney General’s Office, led by Attorney General Ernestina Godoy Ramos, is examining the circumstances surrounding the 23 January abductions and the conditions under which the miners were employed, according to CBC News. The case is being treated as part of a broader federal probe into violence affecting industrial operations in the region.

“We have to … look into exactly what the labour conditions were for these miners and see if there is or isn’t responsibility,” on the part of Vizsla Silver Corp. employees, Sheinbaum said at a morning news conference in Mexico City, as reported by CBC.

She added that investigators are also analysing whether extortion or threats played a role in the kidnapping, underscoring that the inquiry goes beyond identifying the gunmen to assessing potential corporate exposure.

Canadian Occupational Safety (COS) previously reported that 10 workers were abducted at gunpoint from Vizsla’s Panuco silver project in late January. The publication noted that some of those workers were later found dead near the project site outside Concordia, in what workplace watchdogs say fits an “all too common pattern” of violence around resource projects in high‑risk regions.

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