Pollution, another problem faced by this community of Coatzacoalcos
One of the families living in the ejido Manuel Almanza, in Coatzacoalcos, in conditions of extreme poverty. Some villagers are employed as laborers for a wage of 200 pesos to Jesus Lastra semanaFoto
One of the families living in the ejido Manuel Almanza, in Coatzacoalcos, in conditions of extreme poverty. Some villagers are employed as laborers for a wage of 200 pesos a week Photo Jesus Lastra
Jesus Rios Lastra
Correspondent newspaper La Jornada
Manuel Almanza, Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz on May 7. In this district, poverty equally mark the 127 people who live there. They lack everything from drinking water, to electricity, schools and clinics.
The village consists of about fifty huts that stand on one bank of the lagoon, where residents complain of living forgotten for more than 20 years on land of the Commission Nacional del Agua. Therefore, clear, do not own or piece of land they occupy.
Here survive the few fish that manage to remove the blackish waters of the dam's reservoir Cangrejera, which supplies the petrochemical industry of the same name, or used as laborers for starvation wages.
The small village school is closed Miguel Valdés German because the teacher left town for several months, but promised to return to teach literacy to 25 children in this hamlet of just 50 huts.
In the village there are remnants of the electoral process: those who followed Rodiberto Rodríguez Gómez, who was elected municipal subagent, though not attended primary school, and who were in favor of the loser: Araceli Hernández González, only 20 years age.
But the community has complaints: the need to work, the construction of an artesian well to enable them to have water in their homes, as well as electricity, school and at least a visit from a doctor occasionally.
The town is an example of how in Coatzacoalcos, municipality they belong to, live the misery and wealth derived from being the country's main oil port and seat of Pajaritos petrochemical complexes, Morelos and La Cangrejera.
are an industry that charges its residents a high income social pollution that affects health, causing respiratory problems, skin and other ailments.
Examples include Cayetano and Dila Marcela López Ortiz Almeyda-who like other residents are not included in any of the social assistance programs of the three levels of government.
Marcela, who forgot his age and shares his shack with his son Juan Tadeo, low coefficient of mind. His other son, Sabas, suffers the same malady, but works at a nursery in Coatzacoalcos, where he earns 200 pesos a week.
She does not know the motives and reasons for the ills of her children and blames the fact of being poor, a situation that forces them to live in subhuman conditions and eat once a day when it is going.
Bozadas Lorenzo Robles biologist, ecologist civil partnership and Human Development Environment Coatzacoalcos, says the stunt could be linked to the effects of pollution generated by Petroleos Mexicanos in the burning of toxic waste in Pajaritos.
But not only is the problem of dwarfism. Dila has three children: a man and a woman of small stature, with a strain that prevents him from walking.
Your child Fermin Park, complains about the problems you have to walk long stretches because of the size of his legs, but a fisherman and laborer work.
Brumilda, Dila's daughter, is 1.20 meters, she married a man of average height, has a son and moves in a cargo tricycle, which handles up to where they have a small boat in the fishing.
Dila complains, complains of poverty, having no bed to sleep, to walk with flip flops. "But how we live, when we eat eggs and chicken, and if not, just tortillas" he says.
Municipal Power System for Integral Family Development reported that by order of the mayor Mark Theurel, body brigades provide medical care and other services to the community.
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