Inside The Americas
- 10 years ago
A visit to Baviacora, a village in the northern Mexican state of Sonora, where this past August 6, a Grupo México mining subsidiary spilled 40,000 cubic meters of copper sulphate acid into the Sonora River. The effect on the population has been devastating. Authorities say they will apply existing legislation and its penalties but residentes and environmental activists are skeptical whether justice will really be served. teleSur