One of the world's most polluted cities

[Eldorado]

"One morning in late August 2018, Carolina Astudillo was leaving her house in Quintero, a Chilean coastal town just two hours from Santiago, when she noticed a change in the air around her.

"As she reached the end of the block she was already coughing heavily. She felt sick, a numbness in her limbs.

"“It was brutal. You almost couldn’t breathe. My throat was sore, my arms and legs felt numb,” Astudillo says."

Full article at Wired UK: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/chile-quintero-pollution

 

From 2016: "Five decades of pollution in Chile’s Quintero-Ventanas Bay"

At Mongabay dot com: https://news.mongabay.com/2016/10/poisoned-lives-five-decades-of-pollution-in-chiles-quintero-ventanas-bay/

From 2018: "Quintero, the Chilean town sacrificed to pollution"

At EFE dot com: https://www.efe.com/efe/english/business/quintero-the-chilean-town-sacrificed-to-pollution/50000265-3781394

From 2019: "Environmental scandal casts a cloud in Chile"

At DW dot com: https://www.dw.com/en/environmental-scandal-casts-a-cloud-in-chile/a-46324933