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Hagen would stare down death and survive a harrowing surgery in third-world conditions before he hypothesized a motive for the two strangers at his door. About two weeks before their visit, Hagen had fired a water truck company “because their drivers were drunk all of the time and they were missing shifts.” … Hagen now believes his decision to find a new water supplier is directly related to the two strangers who arrived at his door.
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He attempted to slam the door when one man pulled the pistol. However, the metal door bounced off its latch and swung wide open, leaving Hagen exposed to the 9-mm pistol. Two bullets ripped through his left abdomen and another pierced his right leg. "I remember crawling in a pool of my own blood and I'll always remember the warmth of that blood. I knew I was in bad trouble."
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Hagen pulled through surgery at a hospital in Iguala. Two days after the shooting, his company arranged for him to be airlifted out of Mexico. A five-hour odyssey by helicopter and private jet delivered him to Saskatoon. "There was no way, in my head, that I was gonna live if I had stayed (in Mexico)," says Hagen. "When I went into surgery, I remember lying on this table. I looked up and there was a cobweb on the light above the table. Conditions are filthy."
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Hagen faces more surgery this summer, but doctors expect him to make a full recovery. As far as he knows, Mexican authorities have not laid charges against anyone in connection with the December shooting.
'Acepto que soy un descarado,
tambien un sinvergüenza,
pero ... ¿qué puedo hacer?'
-Los Tucanes de Tijuana.
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18-Apr-2007 10:47
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18-Apr-2007 13:47
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18-Apr-2007 14:56
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In mining & prospecting companies pay in hard cash and it is a serious problem they constantly deal with - but it has to be done despite the greater wisdom of people like know-it-all-Longford. I know a v. experienced surveyor whose company had an armored car bring the cash as far as they could, make the transfer to a jeep with 3 armed guys in a pretty secret place in a nearby village.
Pero yo ya no soy yo.
Ni mi casa es ya mi casa.
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19-Apr-2007 16:14
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If there is a "larger story" involving nationality, it's exploitation of poor people by Canadian-headquartered mining companies.
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QuoteOf course, but the point I'm making is that anything beyond what this probably was (a run of the mill payroll robbery) might have less to do with nationality than with the industry in which the guy was involved.
Yes RichTX1 it is a disgrace that Canadian companies are in Mexico exploiting workers but let's not single out Canada.
Pero yo ya no soy yo.
Ni mi casa es ya mi casa.
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20-Apr-2007 13:16
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'Acepto que soy un descarado,
tambien un sinvergüenza,
pero ... ¿qué puedo hacer?'
-Los Tucanes de Tijuana.
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20-Apr-2007 14:38
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Maybe the Americans don't expect their institutions to provide some education and support when things go wrong, but Canada has a different outlook on what rights a citizen has in their society “ Thank God”and that includes not losing all your rights as a member of that society just because you are in a foreign country.
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21-Apr-2007 22:00
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Pero yo ya no soy yo.
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