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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

https://semanariouniversidad.com/pais/municipalidad-de-montes-de-oca-demolio-propiedad-abandonada-usada-como-bunker-cerca-de-calle-de-la-amargura/

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

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

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

#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday

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

#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday

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

#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday

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

#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday

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

#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday

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

See you at 7 P.M. later, today! I'm exhibition #49. #soundpedro #sanpedro #soundart #experimental

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

#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday

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

#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday

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

#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday

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

#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday

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

#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday

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

#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday

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

#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday

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

RE: https://sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/116327132701044471

Happy birthday, D! You are missed.

#UnofficialDiaryDates #DBoon #TheMinutemen #SanPedro

🏈 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.

@[email protected]

#IsaacAlarcon #NFL #49ers #SanPedro #FutbolAmericano

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

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

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

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

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

#schiffsamstag #shipsaturday

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

#schiffsamstag #shipsaturday

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

#schiffsamstag #shipsaturday

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

#schiffsamstag #shipsaturday

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

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

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

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

https://elmundo.cr/costa-rica/consorcio-del-este-desmiente-cancelacion-de-concesiones-en-rutas-de-autobus/

Representante de autobuseros ante el CTP pierde rutas de San Pedro y Zapote por morosidad con la Caja

Representante de autobuseros ante el CTP pierde rutas de San Pedro y Zapote por morosidad con la Caja
San José, 01 dic (elmundo.cr) – La Junta Directiva del Consejo de Transporte Público (CTP) decidió no renovar los permisos a dos de las empresas que forman parte del Consorcio del Este, propiedad de O [...]

#Autobuseros #CCSS #CostaRica #RodrigoChaves #SanPedro #Zapote

https://elmundo.cr/costa-rica/representante-de-autobuseros-ante-el-ctp-pierde-rutas-de-san-pedro-y-zapote-por-morosidad-con-la-caja/

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

Tell your #cat I said…
#SanPedro #bricks

'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

#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

Top 5 #SanPedro #Cactus Imposters | How to identify a #SanPedroCactus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdLX3tQSoY

Wilson flag football team makes dramatic rise in City Section https://www.byteseu.com/1496567/ #birmingham #CitySection #DefensiveBackSamanthaEscarcega #DramaticRise #MarineLeague #Marshall #PlayoffPairing #receiver #SanPedro #saturday #Sports #thursday #touchdown #UpsetWin #WestValleyLeague #WilsonFlagFootballTeam

San Pedro by philippe*

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxiHJwk4Wi00

#sanpedro #chile #car #landscape #travel #nikond2x #flickr #thingsdavidlikes

Find some videos from the show and some collages here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO8kFdu51N8wu5vISonLPSfiaW8PnZqpL&feature=shared

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

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

@CA_Politics_Huddle

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

CPH Daily Bulletin 7/13/2025

🧵 1/6

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

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/

LAFD:

BATTERY RELOCATION Vehicle Rollover with Hazardous Materials 09/27/2024 INC#0796
BATTERY RELOCATION Vehicle Rollover with Hazardous Materials; INC#0796; 02:00PM; 940 N Seaside Av; https://bit.ly/3TLrew9; #SanPedro; Firefighters have devised a plan to move the container with the hazardous lithium-ion batteries to an open lot on Terminal Island. This will allow it to continue burning or off gassing, while lessening the impact on traffic and port operations.; Nicholas Prange

#LongBeach #PortOfLongBeach #Shipping #LithiumBatteryFire #HAZMAT #LosAngeles

LAFD:

BATTERY RELOCATION Vehicle Rollover with Hazardous Materials 09/27/2024 INC#0796
BATTERY RELOCATION Vehicle Rollover with Hazardous Materials; INC#0796; 02:00PM; 940 N Seaside Av; https://bit.ly/3TLrew9; #SanPedro; Firefighters have devised a plan to move the container with the hazardous lithium-ion batteries to an open lot on Terminal Island. This will allow it to continue burning or off gassing, while lessening the impact on traffic and port operations.; Nicholas Prange

#LongBeach #PortOfLongBeach #Shipping #LithiumBatteryFire #HAZMAT #LosAngeles

'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, 2022

TOCOA, 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."

Read more:
https://www.ncronline.org/earthbeat/justice/we-cannot-exist-if-we-lose-water-honduras-community-resists-mine-polluting-r-o

#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, 2022

TOCOA, 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."

Read more:
https://www.ncronline.org/earthbeat/justice/we-cannot-exist-if-we-lose-water-honduras-community-resists-mine-polluting-r-o

#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, 2022

TOCOA, 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."

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https://www.ncronline.org/earthbeat/justice/we-cannot-exist-if-we-lose-water-honduras-community-resists-mine-polluting-r-o

#JusticeForJuan #GuapinolRiver #WaterDefender #SaveTheForests #DefendTheSacred
#NoMiningWithoutConsent #WaterIsLife #SaveTheRivers #EMCO #InversionesLosPinares
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