#sanpedro — Public Fediverse posts
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Municipalidad de Montes de Oca demolió propiedad abandonada usada como “búnker” cerca de calle de La Amargura
El alcalde de Montes de Oca, Domingo Argüello, afirmó que en el sitio se mantuvo retenida a una menor de edad que se logró rescatar.
La entrada Municipalidad de Montes de Oca demolió propiedad abandonada usada como “búnker” cerca de calle de La Amargura aparece primero en Semanario Universidad.#Alcalde #Bunker #Demolición #Drogas #MontesDeOca #País #PolicíaMunicipal #SanPedro #Seguridad #ÚltimaHora
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cool exhibit if you're in LA!
"The [LA] Ports are machines for transpacific exchange, yet their industrial reach has permanently altered the ecology of the coastline and marine life once sustained. Built on Water examines the Ports’ layered industrial landscape to postulate a visionary future"
https://angelsgateart.org/exhibitions/built-on-water/
#LosAngeles #LongBeach #ports #AngelsGate #art #logistics #ecology #SanPedro
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cool exhibit if you're in LA!
"The [LA] Ports are machines for transpacific exchange, yet their industrial reach has permanently altered the ecology of the coastline and marine life once sustained. Built on Water examines the Ports’ layered industrial landscape to postulate a visionary future"
https://angelsgateart.org/exhibitions/built-on-water/
#LosAngeles #LongBeach #ports #AngelsGate #art #logistics #ecology #SanPedro
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Coming to the Port of L.A. this summer: Fireworks, Shakespeare and soccer – Daily Breeze https://www.rawchili.com/5019138/ #California #HarborArea #LocalNews #LosAngeles #LosAngelesCounty #news #PortOfLosAngeles #SanPedro #Soccer #wilmington
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Passing Under The Vincent Thomas Bridge
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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #Ocean #CamelCase #SanPedro #California #US #USA #SoCal #CargoShip #PortOfLosAngeles #Pacific #LA #BNW #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #Bridge #Bridges
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Passing Under The Vincent Thomas Bridge
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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #Ocean #CamelCase #SanPedro #California #US #USA #SoCal #CargoShip #PortOfLosAngeles #Pacific #LA #BNW #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #Bridge #Bridges
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Passing Under The Vincent Thomas Bridge
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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #Ocean #CamelCase #SanPedro #California #US #USA #SoCal #CargoShip #PortOfLosAngeles #Pacific #LA #BNW #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #Bridge #Bridges
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Passing Under The Vincent Thomas Bridge
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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #Ocean #CamelCase #SanPedro #California #US #USA #SoCal #CargoShip #PortOfLosAngeles #Pacific #LA #BNW #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #Bridge #Bridges
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Passing Under The Vincent Thomas Bridge
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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #Ocean #CamelCase #SanPedro #California #US #USA #SoCal #CargoShip #PortOfLosAngeles #Pacific #LA #BNW #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #Bridge #Bridges
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See you at 7 P.M. later, today! I'm exhibition #49. #soundpedro #sanpedro #soundart #experimental
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Angels’s Zach Neto, Brent Suter honor military members during LA Fleet Week visit https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/708964/ #Angels #Baseball #CA #La #LAAngels #LaLosAngelesCounty #LAAngels #LosAngeles #LosAngelesAngels #LosAngelesCounty #LosAngeles #LosAngelesAngels #military #MLB #SanPedro #Sports #Us #veterans
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Los Angeles Harbor Light, also known as Angels Gate Light
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Harbor_Light
#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #Sunrise #Dawn #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #Ocean #CamelCase #Seascape #Lighthouse #Lighthouses #Fyr #Phare #Leuchtturm #SanPedro #California #US #USA #SoCal #ContainerShip #CargoShip #PortOfLosAngeles #Pacific #LA
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Los Angeles Harbor Light, also known as Angels Gate Light
(Details in the #AltText)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Harbor_Light
#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #Sunrise #Dawn #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #Ocean #CamelCase #Seascape #Lighthouse #Lighthouses #Fyr #Phare #Leuchtturm #SanPedro #California #US #USA #SoCal #ContainerShip #CargoShip #PortOfLosAngeles #Pacific #LA
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Los Angeles Harbor Light, also known as Angels Gate Light
(Details in the #AltText)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Harbor_Light
#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #Sunrise #Dawn #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #Ocean #CamelCase #Seascape #Lighthouse #Lighthouses #Fyr #Phare #Leuchtturm #SanPedro #California #US #USA #SoCal #ContainerShip #CargoShip #PortOfLosAngeles #Pacific #LA
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Los Angeles Harbor Light, also known as Angels Gate Light
(Details in the #AltText)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Harbor_Light
#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #Sunrise #Dawn #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #Ocean #CamelCase #Seascape #Lighthouse #Lighthouses #Fyr #Phare #Leuchtturm #SanPedro #California #US #USA #SoCal #ContainerShip #CargoShip #PortOfLosAngeles #Pacific #LA
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Los Angeles Harbor Light, also known as Angels Gate Light
(Details in the #AltText)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Harbor_Light
#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #Sunrise #Dawn #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #Ocean #CamelCase #Seascape #Lighthouse #Lighthouses #Fyr #Phare #Leuchtturm #SanPedro #California #US #USA #SoCal #ContainerShip #CargoShip #PortOfLosAngeles #Pacific #LA
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Passing The Los Angeles Harbor Light At Dawn
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Harbor_Light
#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #photo #Fyr #Photography #Travel #SanPedro #SoCal #USA #US #TravelPhotography #LA #Port #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #Ocean #BNW #Seascape #California #Lighthouse #PortOfLosAngeles #Lighthouses #Phare #Leuchtturm #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotographgy #Monochrome #SchiffsSamstag
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Passing The Los Angeles Harbor Light At Dawn
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Harbor_Light
#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #photo #Fyr #Photography #Travel #SanPedro #SoCal #USA #US #TravelPhotography #LA #Port #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #Ship #Ships #ShipsOfMastodon #Maritime #Nautical #Water #Sea #Ocean #BNW #Seascape #California #Lighthouse #PortOfLosAngeles #Lighthouses #Phare #Leuchtturm #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotographgy #Monochrome #SchiffsSamstag
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RE: https://sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/116327132701044471
Happy birthday, D! You are missed.
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🏈 Isaac Alarcón convivió con niños y jóvenes del Club Avispones en San Pedro. El liniero de los San Francisco 49ers compartió su trayectoria desde Monterrey hasta la NFL, destacando la disciplina como clave del éxito.
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started a #wikipedia article on San Pedro landowner, philanthropist, clubwoman, Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson (1858-1930): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudecinda_Sepulveda_Dodson @wikiwomeninred @wikipedia_la #SanPedro #RanchoPalosVerdes
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started a #wikipedia article on San Pedro landowner, philanthropist, clubwoman, Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson (1858-1930): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudecinda_Sepulveda_Dodson @wikiwomeninred @wikipedia_la #SanPedro #RanchoPalosVerdes
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started a #wikipedia article on San Pedro landowner, philanthropist, clubwoman, Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson (1858-1930): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudecinda_Sepulveda_Dodson @wikiwomeninred @wikipedia_la #SanPedro #RanchoPalosVerdes
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started a #wikipedia article on San Pedro landowner, philanthropist, clubwoman, Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson (1858-1930): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudecinda_Sepulveda_Dodson @wikiwomeninred @wikipedia_la #SanPedro #RanchoPalosVerdes
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started a #wikipedia article on San Pedro landowner, philanthropist, clubwoman, Rudecinda Sepulveda Dodson (1858-1930): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudecinda_Sepulveda_Dodson @wikiwomeninred @wikipedia_la #SanPedro #RanchoPalosVerdes
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Passing The Los Angeles Harbor Light
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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #photo #fyr #photography #travel #sanpedro #socal #usa #us #travelphotography #la #port #photooftheday #potd #ship #ships #shipsofmastodon #maritime #nautical #water #sea #ocean #sunrise #dawn #seascape #california #lighthouse #portofLosAngeles #Lighthouses #phare #leuchtturm
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Passing The Los Angeles Harbor Light
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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #photo #fyr #photography #travel #sanpedro #socal #usa #us #travelphotography #la #port #photooftheday #potd #ship #ships #shipsofmastodon #maritime #nautical #water #sea #ocean #sunrise #dawn #seascape #california #lighthouse #portofLosAngeles #Lighthouses #phare #leuchtturm
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Leaving Port At Sunrise
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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #photo #photography #travel #sanpedro #socal #usa #us #travelphotography #la #port #photooftheday #potd #ship #ships #shipsofmastodon #maritime #nautical #water #sea #ocean #sunrise #dawn #seascape #california #portofLosAngeles
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Leaving Port At Sunrise
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#AltText #NoAi #No2Ai #photo #photography #travel #sanpedro #socal #usa #us #travelphotography #la #port #photooftheday #potd #ship #ships #shipsofmastodon #maritime #nautical #water #sea #ocean #sunrise #dawn #seascape #california #portofLosAngeles
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Returned to San Pedro Chapel on Monday to see how it photographs in great sunset light. A great piece of Arizona history, this chapel as it stands was dedicated in 1932 on the ruins of the original chapel after it was destroyed by a tornado. #sanpedro #visittucson #tucson
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Italian food in San Pedro is a family tradition at Raffaello Ristorante – Daily Breeze https://www.diningandcooking.com/2439141/italian-food-in-san-pedro-is-a-family-tradition-at-raffaello-ristorante-daily-breeze/ #california #dining #FamilyMeals #HarborArea #Italia #Italian #ItalianFamilyMeals #italiano #italy #LosAngeles #LosAngelesCounty #RestaurantReviews #Restaurants #RestaurantsFoodAndDrink #SanPedro #ThingsToDo #TopStoriesBreeze
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Consorcio del Este desmiente cancelación de concesiones en rutas de autobús
Consorcio del Este desmiente cancelación de concesiones en rutas de autobús
San José, 04 dic (elmundo.cr) – El Consorcio del Este, operador de las rutas de autobús que sirven a Zapote, Curridabat, San Pedro y Tres Ríos, desmintió categóricamente las in [...]#Autobuses #CTP #Concesiones #ConsorcioDelEste #CostaRica #Curridabat #OrlandoRamírezBioley #SanPedro #TransportePúblico #TresRíos #Zapote
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This week’s top high school football playoff games https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/555739/ #carson #CoronaCentennial #Football #MaterDei #no #palisades #passing #pick #QuarterbackPosition #SanPedro #SantaMargarita #season #servite #Speed #St.JohnBosco #UnbeatenSierraCanyon
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'One Henry Hudson' - Port of Los Angeles fire - update
#SanPedro & #Wilmington shelter in place order LIFTED for the HazMat incident at San Pedro Port. All Clear to be outdoors. All Genasys Protect Zones returned to normal
https://lafd.org/alert/shelterinplace-order-lifted-san-pedro-and-wilmington-11222025
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#LosAngeles / #SanPedro - Port of Los Angeles Fire
For the Media; .... Port PIO, Coast Guard PIO, and LAFD PIO are at the Media Staging point at 1001 New Dock Street (just outside port security)
https://lafd.org/alert/update-major-emergency-ship-fire-11212025-inc1555-1
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Top 5 #SanPedro #Cactus Imposters | How to identify a #SanPedroCactus
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Find some videos from the show and some collages here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO8kFdu51N8wu5vISonLPSfiaW8PnZqpL&feature=sharedfrom #2 of our TOURDEPASSEPASSE
At The Sardine, San Pedro
played with
baiza crane watt trio!!!
July 11
It was fantastic!
we were so happy to play that night:) ✨️#noiserock #noiserocknow #thesardine #sanpedro #postpunkmusic #psychedelicrock #punkrock #punk #industrialmusic
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Some pix
from #2 of our TOURDEPASSEPASSE
At The Sardine, San Pedro
played with
baiza crane watt trio!!!
July 11
It was fantastic!
we were so happy to play that night:) ✨️#noiserock #noiserocknow #thesardine #sanpedro #postpunkmusic #psychedelicrock #punkrock #punk #industrialmusic
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CPH Daily Bulletin 7/13/2025
🧵 2/6
-VIDEO: Immigration Enforcement Use of Terminal Island Press Conference https://
youtu.be/VKEzez8PSxo?si=h9YBWpcyvFR6niax
#AbolishICE #LosAngeles #TerminalIsland #JapaneseAmerican #SanPedro #California #InternmentCamps
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CPH Daily Bulletin 7/13/2025
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JA and Local Community Leaders Condemn ICE Staging on Terminal Island
https://rafu.com/2025/07/ja-and-local-community-leaders-condemn-ice-staging-on-terminal-island/
#AbolishICE #LosAngeles #TerminalIsland #JapaneseAmerican #SanPedro #California #InternmentCamps
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A 100-year-old Italian culinary family invites San Pedro to celebrate – Press Telegram
Few names are better known in San Pedro than that of the …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italianculinary #california #culinary #culinarytraditions #Italia #Italian #ItalianCulinary #Italianculinarytraditions #italiano #italy #localbusiness #LosAngeles #LosAngelesCounty #news #sanpedro
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2139159/a-100-year-old-italian-culinary-family-invites-san-pedro-to-celebrate-press-telegram/ -
'We cannot exist if we lose the water': In #Honduras, a community resists a #mine polluting the #RíoGuapinol
"#JuanLópez, representative of the Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, told #RadioProgreso that the activists' next step is advocate for the revoking of Inversiones Los Pinares' mining contracts, the environmental license and the exploitation and exploration permit."
by Soli Salgado
October 18, 2022TOCOA, HONDURAS - "The Río Guapinol that streams through the Bajo Aguán valley in northern Honduras has long been a source of drinking, bathing, cleaning, irrigation and cooking water for the surrounding community in Tocoa.
"In the last few years, the river has also provided an education: how to resist an international mining operation that they say contaminates the river in the name of development; how to confront a seemingly compromised justice system when that #resistance goes awry; and — for the women in particular — how to become leaders of a movement upon the indefinite imprisonment of their husbands and sons.
"Vilma Cruz raised her five children using the river, including a son who wound up spending almost two and a half years in jail for protesting the mining as part of the #Guapinol8, a group whose 2019 arrests and long detentions drew international outrage.
"'We don't feel at peace because our water has been endangered,' she said. 'Now, when I go to the river, I feel my chest swell, like I'm not free.'
A mine emerges, a community responds
"About a decade ago, #InversionesLosPinares, formerly the Honduran #EMCO Mining Company and based in #Tocoa, applied for a concession to build an iron oxide mine in the protected #CarlosEscaleras #NationalPark. Then-President Juan Orlando Hernández authorized the request in 2013, a decision locals said was made without following protocol of consulting residents of the area.
"The #OpenPit #mining project was upstream of the #RíoGuapinol, a channel that stems from the larger #RíoAguan, a river that flows through tropical mountains from the Atlantic on the northern side of the #CentralAmerican country.
"When the Río Guapinol in 2018 started to turn a chocolate brown, locals took that as a cue to act against Inversiones Los Pinares.
"#GuapinolResiste, the local community's movement in response to the mining, said in a 2020 report that even before mining began, the construction of the facilities and roads had polluted both the Guapinol and #SanPedro rivers, affecting 14,000 residents who rely on the water for consumption and domestic purposes.
"'Losing the river would mean buying water, and you can't buy water for everything,' said Leonel George, who serves on the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, founded in 2018 in response to the mining project.
"The river, he added, is 'closely linked to life and the existence of everything that surrounds us,' noting that the committee's concern goes beyond the effects that contaminated water would have on human beings to the river's surrounding #forests and #biodiversity."
#JusticeForJuan #GuapinolRiver #WaterDefender #SaveTheForests #DefendTheSacred
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #WaterIsLife #SaveTheRivers #EMCO #InversionesLosPinares
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'We cannot exist if we lose the water': In #Honduras, a community resists a #mine polluting the #RíoGuapinol
"#JuanLópez, representative of the Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, told #RadioProgreso that the activists' next step is advocate for the revoking of Inversiones Los Pinares' mining contracts, the environmental license and the exploitation and exploration permit."
by Soli Salgado
October 18, 2022TOCOA, HONDURAS - "The Río Guapinol that streams through the Bajo Aguán valley in northern Honduras has long been a source of drinking, bathing, cleaning, irrigation and cooking water for the surrounding community in Tocoa.
"In the last few years, the river has also provided an education: how to resist an international mining operation that they say contaminates the river in the name of development; how to confront a seemingly compromised justice system when that #resistance goes awry; and — for the women in particular — how to become leaders of a movement upon the indefinite imprisonment of their husbands and sons.
"Vilma Cruz raised her five children using the river, including a son who wound up spending almost two and a half years in jail for protesting the mining as part of the #Guapinol8, a group whose 2019 arrests and long detentions drew international outrage.
"'We don't feel at peace because our water has been endangered,' she said. 'Now, when I go to the river, I feel my chest swell, like I'm not free.'
A mine emerges, a community responds
"About a decade ago, #InversionesLosPinares, formerly the Honduran #EMCO Mining Company and based in #Tocoa, applied for a concession to build an iron oxide mine in the protected #CarlosEscaleras #NationalPark. Then-President Juan Orlando Hernández authorized the request in 2013, a decision locals said was made without following protocol of consulting residents of the area.
"The #OpenPit #mining project was upstream of the #RíoGuapinol, a channel that stems from the larger #RíoAguan, a river that flows through tropical mountains from the Atlantic on the northern side of the #CentralAmerican country.
"When the Río Guapinol in 2018 started to turn a chocolate brown, locals took that as a cue to act against Inversiones Los Pinares.
"#GuapinolResiste, the local community's movement in response to the mining, said in a 2020 report that even before mining began, the construction of the facilities and roads had polluted both the Guapinol and #SanPedro rivers, affecting 14,000 residents who rely on the water for consumption and domestic purposes.
"'Losing the river would mean buying water, and you can't buy water for everything,' said Leonel George, who serves on the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, founded in 2018 in response to the mining project.
"The river, he added, is 'closely linked to life and the existence of everything that surrounds us,' noting that the committee's concern goes beyond the effects that contaminated water would have on human beings to the river's surrounding #forests and #biodiversity."
#JusticeForJuan #GuapinolRiver #WaterDefender #SaveTheForests #DefendTheSacred
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #WaterIsLife #SaveTheRivers #EMCO #InversionesLosPinares
#MunicipalCommitteeForTheDefenseOfCommonAndPublicGoods -
'We cannot exist if we lose the water': In #Honduras, a community resists a #mine polluting the #RíoGuapinol
"#JuanLópez, representative of the Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, told #RadioProgreso that the activists' next step is advocate for the revoking of Inversiones Los Pinares' mining contracts, the environmental license and the exploitation and exploration permit."
by Soli Salgado
October 18, 2022TOCOA, HONDURAS - "The Río Guapinol that streams through the Bajo Aguán valley in northern Honduras has long been a source of drinking, bathing, cleaning, irrigation and cooking water for the surrounding community in Tocoa.
"In the last few years, the river has also provided an education: how to resist an international mining operation that they say contaminates the river in the name of development; how to confront a seemingly compromised justice system when that #resistance goes awry; and — for the women in particular — how to become leaders of a movement upon the indefinite imprisonment of their husbands and sons.
"Vilma Cruz raised her five children using the river, including a son who wound up spending almost two and a half years in jail for protesting the mining as part of the #Guapinol8, a group whose 2019 arrests and long detentions drew international outrage.
"'We don't feel at peace because our water has been endangered,' she said. 'Now, when I go to the river, I feel my chest swell, like I'm not free.'
A mine emerges, a community responds
"About a decade ago, #InversionesLosPinares, formerly the Honduran #EMCO Mining Company and based in #Tocoa, applied for a concession to build an iron oxide mine in the protected #CarlosEscaleras #NationalPark. Then-President Juan Orlando Hernández authorized the request in 2013, a decision locals said was made without following protocol of consulting residents of the area.
"The #OpenPit #mining project was upstream of the #RíoGuapinol, a channel that stems from the larger #RíoAguan, a river that flows through tropical mountains from the Atlantic on the northern side of the #CentralAmerican country.
"When the Río Guapinol in 2018 started to turn a chocolate brown, locals took that as a cue to act against Inversiones Los Pinares.
"#GuapinolResiste, the local community's movement in response to the mining, said in a 2020 report that even before mining began, the construction of the facilities and roads had polluted both the Guapinol and #SanPedro rivers, affecting 14,000 residents who rely on the water for consumption and domestic purposes.
"'Losing the river would mean buying water, and you can't buy water for everything,' said Leonel George, who serves on the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, founded in 2018 in response to the mining project.
"The river, he added, is 'closely linked to life and the existence of everything that surrounds us,' noting that the committee's concern goes beyond the effects that contaminated water would have on human beings to the river's surrounding #forests and #biodiversity."
#JusticeForJuan #GuapinolRiver #WaterDefender #SaveTheForests #DefendTheSacred
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #WaterIsLife #SaveTheRivers #EMCO #InversionesLosPinares
#MunicipalCommitteeForTheDefenseOfCommonAndPublicGoods -
'We cannot exist if we lose the water': In #Honduras, a community resists a #mine polluting the #RíoGuapinol
"#JuanLópez, representative of the Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, told #RadioProgreso that the activists' next step is advocate for the revoking of Inversiones Los Pinares' mining contracts, the environmental license and the exploitation and exploration permit."
by Soli Salgado
October 18, 2022TOCOA, HONDURAS - "The Río Guapinol that streams through the Bajo Aguán valley in northern Honduras has long been a source of drinking, bathing, cleaning, irrigation and cooking water for the surrounding community in Tocoa.
"In the last few years, the river has also provided an education: how to resist an international mining operation that they say contaminates the river in the name of development; how to confront a seemingly compromised justice system when that #resistance goes awry; and — for the women in particular — how to become leaders of a movement upon the indefinite imprisonment of their husbands and sons.
"Vilma Cruz raised her five children using the river, including a son who wound up spending almost two and a half years in jail for protesting the mining as part of the #Guapinol8, a group whose 2019 arrests and long detentions drew international outrage.
"'We don't feel at peace because our water has been endangered,' she said. 'Now, when I go to the river, I feel my chest swell, like I'm not free.'
A mine emerges, a community responds
"About a decade ago, #InversionesLosPinares, formerly the Honduran #EMCO Mining Company and based in #Tocoa, applied for a concession to build an iron oxide mine in the protected #CarlosEscaleras #NationalPark. Then-President Juan Orlando Hernández authorized the request in 2013, a decision locals said was made without following protocol of consulting residents of the area.
"The #OpenPit #mining project was upstream of the #RíoGuapinol, a channel that stems from the larger #RíoAguan, a river that flows through tropical mountains from the Atlantic on the northern side of the #CentralAmerican country.
"When the Río Guapinol in 2018 started to turn a chocolate brown, locals took that as a cue to act against Inversiones Los Pinares.
"#GuapinolResiste, the local community's movement in response to the mining, said in a 2020 report that even before mining began, the construction of the facilities and roads had polluted both the Guapinol and #SanPedro rivers, affecting 14,000 residents who rely on the water for consumption and domestic purposes.
"'Losing the river would mean buying water, and you can't buy water for everything,' said Leonel George, who serves on the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, founded in 2018 in response to the mining project.
"The river, he added, is 'closely linked to life and the existence of everything that surrounds us,' noting that the committee's concern goes beyond the effects that contaminated water would have on human beings to the river's surrounding #forests and #biodiversity."
#JusticeForJuan #GuapinolRiver #WaterDefender #SaveTheForests #DefendTheSacred
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #WaterIsLife #SaveTheRivers #EMCO #InversionesLosPinares
#MunicipalCommitteeForTheDefenseOfCommonAndPublicGoods -
'We cannot exist if we lose the water': In #Honduras, a community resists a #mine polluting the #RíoGuapinol
"#JuanLópez, representative of the Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, told #RadioProgreso that the activists' next step is advocate for the revoking of Inversiones Los Pinares' mining contracts, the environmental license and the exploitation and exploration permit."
by Soli Salgado
October 18, 2022TOCOA, HONDURAS - "The Río Guapinol that streams through the Bajo Aguán valley in northern Honduras has long been a source of drinking, bathing, cleaning, irrigation and cooking water for the surrounding community in Tocoa.
"In the last few years, the river has also provided an education: how to resist an international mining operation that they say contaminates the river in the name of development; how to confront a seemingly compromised justice system when that #resistance goes awry; and — for the women in particular — how to become leaders of a movement upon the indefinite imprisonment of their husbands and sons.
"Vilma Cruz raised her five children using the river, including a son who wound up spending almost two and a half years in jail for protesting the mining as part of the #Guapinol8, a group whose 2019 arrests and long detentions drew international outrage.
"'We don't feel at peace because our water has been endangered,' she said. 'Now, when I go to the river, I feel my chest swell, like I'm not free.'
A mine emerges, a community responds
"About a decade ago, #InversionesLosPinares, formerly the Honduran #EMCO Mining Company and based in #Tocoa, applied for a concession to build an iron oxide mine in the protected #CarlosEscaleras #NationalPark. Then-President Juan Orlando Hernández authorized the request in 2013, a decision locals said was made without following protocol of consulting residents of the area.
"The #OpenPit #mining project was upstream of the #RíoGuapinol, a channel that stems from the larger #RíoAguan, a river that flows through tropical mountains from the Atlantic on the northern side of the #CentralAmerican country.
"When the Río Guapinol in 2018 started to turn a chocolate brown, locals took that as a cue to act against Inversiones Los Pinares.
"#GuapinolResiste, the local community's movement in response to the mining, said in a 2020 report that even before mining began, the construction of the facilities and roads had polluted both the Guapinol and #SanPedro rivers, affecting 14,000 residents who rely on the water for consumption and domestic purposes.
"'Losing the river would mean buying water, and you can't buy water for everything,' said Leonel George, who serves on the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, founded in 2018 in response to the mining project.
"The river, he added, is 'closely linked to life and the existence of everything that surrounds us,' noting that the committee's concern goes beyond the effects that contaminated water would have on human beings to the river's surrounding #forests and #biodiversity."
#JusticeForJuan #GuapinolRiver #WaterDefender #SaveTheForests #DefendTheSacred
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #WaterIsLife #SaveTheRivers #EMCO #InversionesLosPinares
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Honduras: Anti-mining activist Juan Lopez shot dead
#JuanLopez is the fourth member of an #environmental #activism group based in in #Tocoa to be killed since 2023.
President #XiomaraCastro condemned the murder and has ordered an investigation.
September 16, 2024
"An #AntiMining #EnvironmentalActivist in #Honduras who protested to preserve #TropicalForests and rivers was killed over the weekend, even after warnings to better ensure his safety.
"Juan Lopez, 46, was gunned down as he left church Saturday in the northeastern town of Tocoa, police said on Sunday.
"Honduran President Xiomara Castro condmened the apparent murder of Lopez, a member of the Libre party she's allied to, in comments online.
"'We condemn the vile murder of our comrade and environmental leader Juan Lopez in Tocoa, Colon,' she said. 'I have ordered that all the capabilities of law enforcement be used to clarify this tragedy and identify those responsible.'
Multiple members of Lopez's enviromental organization killed
"Lopez belonged to the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, an environmental organization in Tocoa on the country's Atlantic coast.
"Three other members of the group were killed last year in what the organization saw as retaliation.
"The group had suffered threats and harassment for years amid efforts to preserve the #Guapinol and #SanPedro rivers, and the #CarlosEscaleras #Nature Reserve, as the presence of #mining and #hydroelectric companies increased.
"Honduran Attorney General Johel Zelaya said the 'reprehensible' murder would not go unpunished, and paid tribute to Lopez's #activism.
"'His life was an example of struggle. He never gave up in his incessant battle, hand-in-hand with the people to preserve natural resources,' Zelaya said on X.
Lopez aware of risks of his activism
"An outspoken member of the ruling #LibreParty, Lopez had recently publicly called for the resignation of Libre officials caught on video negotiating bribes with drug traffickers in 2013.
"Carlos Zelaya, a brother-in-law of president Castro, was caught up in that video. He resigned his seat in congress after admitting he took part in that meeting with drug gangsters.
"'If you leave home, you always have in mind that you do not know what might happen, if you are going to return,' Lopez had said in 2021 when speaking of his activism with AFP.
"Lopez had also raised the alarm himself earlier in the year, saying he had noticed two people on motorbikes observing him in locations around his home.
Activist deaths high in Latin America
"Global Witness, a British NGO, says Honduras is one of the world's most dangerous countries for environmental activists.
"#LatinAmerica accounted for 85% of all the world's environmentalists who were killed last year, with 18 deaths registered in Honduras, according to #GlobalWitness.
"The United Nations resident coordinator in Honduras, Alice Shackelford, said Lopez had been threatened for his activism and praised his determination to stand up to powerful interests.
"'We condemn the terrible murder of Juan Lopez, a human rights defender threatened for his work,' she said in a post."
km/msh (AFP, Reuters)
https://www.dw.com/en/honduras-anti-mining-activist-juan-lopez-shot-dead/a-70223466
#JusticeForJuan #GuapinolRiver #WaterDefender #SaveTheForests #DefendTheSacred
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #Greenwashing #WaterIsLife #SaveTheRivers #EMCO #InversionesLosPinares
#MunicipalCommitteeForTheDefenseOfCommonAndPublicGoods -
Honduras: Anti-mining activist Juan Lopez shot dead
#JuanLopez is the fourth member of an #environmental #activism group based in in #Tocoa to be killed since 2023.
President #XiomaraCastro condemned the murder and has ordered an investigation.
September 16, 2024
"An #AntiMining #EnvironmentalActivist in #Honduras who protested to preserve #TropicalForests and rivers was killed over the weekend, even after warnings to better ensure his safety.
"Juan Lopez, 46, was gunned down as he left church Saturday in the northeastern town of Tocoa, police said on Sunday.
"Honduran President Xiomara Castro condmened the apparent murder of Lopez, a member of the Libre party she's allied to, in comments online.
"'We condemn the vile murder of our comrade and environmental leader Juan Lopez in Tocoa, Colon,' she said. 'I have ordered that all the capabilities of law enforcement be used to clarify this tragedy and identify those responsible.'
Multiple members of Lopez's enviromental organization killed
"Lopez belonged to the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods, an environmental organization in Tocoa on the country's Atlantic coast.
"Three other members of the group were killed last year in what the organization saw as retaliation.
"The group had suffered threats and harassment for years amid efforts to preserve the #Guapinol and #SanPedro rivers, and the #CarlosEscaleras #Nature Reserve, as the presence of #mining and #hydroelectric companies increased.
"Honduran Attorney General Johel Zelaya said the 'reprehensible' murder would not go unpunished, and paid tribute to Lopez's #activism.
"'His life was an example of struggle. He never gave up in his incessant battle, hand-in-hand with the people to preserve natural resources,' Zelaya said on X.
Lopez aware of risks of his activism
"An outspoken member of the ruling #LibreParty, Lopez had recently publicly called for the resignation of Libre officials caught on video negotiating bribes with drug traffickers in 2013.
"Carlos Zelaya, a brother-in-law of president Castro, was caught up in that video. He resigned his seat in congress after admitting he took part in that meeting with drug gangsters.
"'If you leave home, you always have in mind that you do not know what might happen, if you are going to return,' Lopez had said in 2021 when speaking of his activism with AFP.
"Lopez had also raised the alarm himself earlier in the year, saying he had noticed two people on motorbikes observing him in locations around his home.
Activist deaths high in Latin America
"Global Witness, a British NGO, says Honduras is one of the world's most dangerous countries for environmental activists.
"#LatinAmerica accounted for 85% of all the world's environmentalists who were killed last year, with 18 deaths registered in Honduras, according to #GlobalWitness.
"The United Nations resident coordinator in Honduras, Alice Shackelford, said Lopez had been threatened for his activism and praised his determination to stand up to powerful interests.
"'We condemn the terrible murder of Juan Lopez, a human rights defender threatened for his work,' she said in a post."
km/msh (AFP, Reuters)
https://www.dw.com/en/honduras-anti-mining-activist-juan-lopez-shot-dead/a-70223466
#JusticeForJuan #GuapinolRiver #WaterDefender #SaveTheForests #DefendTheSacred
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #Greenwashing #WaterIsLife #SaveTheRivers #EMCO #InversionesLosPinares
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