Pesticide Victims March in Managua

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This is a crosspost from the Latin America Forum :

Managua, Aug 29 (Prensa Latina) Hundreds of Nicaraguan banana workers affected by the pesticide Nemagon took to the streets in Managua on Wednesday to demand compensation from several US transnational companies.
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They demanded that Washington send a medical brigade to treat the pesticide victims and give official support for a lawsuit they filed in Los Angeles against banana companies.
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They asked the government to act as a facilitator in the lawsuit filed in US courts.
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Nemagon can cause skin cancer, liver diseases, sterility and congenital malformations.

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On the subject of the pesticide go here :

Nemagon-also known as dibromochloropropane, or DBCP-was developed in the early '50s in the United States by Dow Chemical Co. and Shell Chemicals and marketed as a miracle product.
Used to protect banana and pineapple plants, Nemagon destroys the microscopic worms that attack banana tree roots. Nemagon makes the trees grow and stay healthier, longer.
Today, we know that the companies had reason to worry about the potential danger of their product from the start. Laboratory tests conducted in the '50s revealed that Nemagon caused testicular atrophy in rats. Regardless, scientists defended the product and in 1961 it was given the green light by the Department of Agriculture. The pesticide was instantly successful with American fruit companies, which exported it to their plantations in Central America and all over the world.
The health problems caused by Nemagon were first observed in 1977. That year, a third of the workers in a California factory that produced the chemical were declared sterile. They sued Occidental Petroleum Corporation, their employer, which was forced to pay millions in compensation to the affected workers.

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