Monthly Archives: April 2011

The children of lead from Bajos de Haina and La Oroya

The cities of Bajos de Haina , about 20 miles west of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and La Oroya, located at 175 kilometers from Lima, department of Junin in Peru, are the most contaminated populations with lead in the American … Continue reading

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Mother earth, brother environment … in reference to “Earth Day”

What in the beginning was a manifestation of the so-called hippie movement in the early 70′s, protesting against oil spills, polluting factories, power plants, sewage, toxic waste, pesticides, freeways, and loss and extinction of wildlife suddenly realized they had common … Continue reading

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Latin American environmentalist beyond ideologies

Latin America has been very unfortunate copying the political European models. In short, everything that we are copying goes wrong, prone to bad. We were happy, before the arrival of men on horseback to the mainland. We came from venerate … Continue reading

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FUTURAMA… 50 years later

Finally the Japanese ate all the dolphins to make their sushi and along the Norwegian and Icelandic whale ended. Canadians, have lost to seals and polar bears. In India the Bengal tiger disappeared, like the Asiatic wild dog, the Sarus … Continue reading

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