CMD confirms increase of disease in Barrick mine area

Some mornings, say local residents, the smell of cyanide, "a hellish stench," invades their farmlands, their houses and bedrooms and there is no way of stopping it. "The stink is unbearable, we don't know where to go and when it rains, it is even stronger," said Pedro Nunez. The report says that the substance has infiltrated the rivers, a source of life for people in these communities, and the waters are unusable. The reporter says that Barrick is well aware of this because it is distributing four 5-gallon bottles of water per family every three days to prevent them from using river water. Former cattle rancher Gavino Guzman of Las Lagunas said he has a severe ulcer on his right foot and all his cattle have died.
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