Nicaraguans Demand Justice From World Bank-Financed Sugar Cane Company From: upsidedownworld.org
Tagged: NicaraguaPosted on: July 13th, 2008
In Chichigalpa, Chinandega, a company town in the hottest part of Nicaragua – former full-time cane workers have set up a permanent presence with tents and banners outside the entrance of the mill to draw attention to the prevalence of kidney disease among former workers, and to protest the Ingenio San Antonio sugar cane company’s refusal to acknowledge its responsibility. They’re there because they’ve been diagnosed with Chronic Renal Insufficiency (CRI), or because they’ve been widowed by it. “*
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