The first Iron “diet” of the Steel Elephant: the not (so) known blockade of the Cerro del Mercado in Durango that Fundidora Monterrey suffered in 1966

Abstract

The student blockade that the Cerro del Mercado de Durango suffered in 1970, at that time, the only source of iron for Fundidora Monterrey and that caused severe economic losses, was not the first blockade that the company had suffered but rather had already suffered one more in 1966. The background and motivations of this first blockade go back decades before and to the search of the people of Durango to improve their economy and quality of living.