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Article

11 Sep 2006

Author:
Marcela Valente, IPS

Un asentamiento inflamable [Argentina]

Tres mil personas viven bajo las chimeneas de plantas petroleras y depósitos químicos, entre basura, fango y cursos de agua pestilentes, en Villa Inflamable, un asentamiento en la zona baja de la cuenca Matanza-Riachuelo, al sur de Buenos Aires...Toda la cuenca, de 64 kilómetros cuadrados, está contaminada...las tres mil empresas radicadas en la zona afectaron gravemente el recurso. Pero la zona baja es la más crítica...144 personas que hace dos años demandaron por daño ambiental al estado y a las 44 firmas del complejo industrial lindero, el Polo Petroquímico Dock Sud. El caso llegó a la Corte Suprema de Justicia, que en junio intimó a gobierno y empresas a presentar un plan de saneamiento...un estudio de la Agencia de Cooperación Internacional de Japón según el cual...50 por ciento de los niños de siete a 11 años tienen plomo en la sangre y 10 por ciento cloro en la orina. [se refiere a Union Carbide (parte de Dow)]

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