Carry on helping these kids and you could end up dead

Article Abstract:

Aid-worker Bruce Harris, 36, received death threats when working in Guatemala City. He was publicising police violence and killing of street children for the child welfare organisation Covenant House. He became executive director of its Latin American programmes in Mexico City. Covenant House runs shelters for about 550 children. It obtained the conviction of four policemen for killing Nahaman Carmona on March 14, 1990. It has documentation on 16 other cases of murder and nine of torture by Guatemalan police. The Canadian International Development Agency established a legal team to help prosecute.

Social aspects, Latin America, Guatemala, Police, Police officers, Child welfare, Covenant House

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Tax breaks poison the atmosphere for Mexico's workers

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AMexican programme introduced in 1965 to encourage American firms to come to Mexico has resulted in over 2,000 firms being built along the 2,000 mile long US Mexican border in a 12 mile band on the Mexican side. Many communities along the border have been poisoned by many of these firms. Nothing grows there and acrid fumes fill the air. The firms take advantage of tariff exemptions and the low wage rates that undercut even Taiwan and Korea. Children as young as 13 come from miles to work in the factories.

Mexico, Pollution, Contamination (Technology), Contamination

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Industrial inferno may hold key to birth defects

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In the last two years 28 pregnant mothers in Brownsville, Texas, TX, have given birth to anencephalic babies: six times the national average. Across the Rio Grande river is the industrial area of Matamoros, Mexico. Lax pollution laws have created environmental destruction. The National Centres for Disease Control (CDC) is investigating a link to aflo-toxins, a carcinogenic mould in grains and peanuts. Heredity may be a cause as this defect is more common in Mexico.

Health aspects, Texas, Brain-damaged children, Aflatoxins, Anencephaly, Brownsville, Texas, Matamoros, Mexico

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