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ISSUE NO. 1792
7 - 13 November 2019
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by Dilip Kuner AROUND 55,000 people joined in the biggest demonstration Cartagena (Murcia) has ever seen to call for the Mar Menor to be ‘saved.’ “ We d o n ’t w a n t a d e a d sea,” cried one group of demonstrators as they passed along a crowded Paseo de Alfonso XIII on Wednesday October 30. It was 7.30 in the early evening and, an hour after the departure, the head of the march had arrived at the doors of the Regional Assembly. And a kilometre further back at the Plaza de Es-
paña, a crowd continued to advance amid a wave of banners, a tide of slogans and a tidal wave of indignation. “Hoga, hoga, hoga, the Mar Menor is drowning,” chanted some young people, amidst the beating of drums. “There must be no treatment with nitrates,” was heard loudly a little further on. Posters with slogans like ‘Idleness, corruption, resignation’ slammed the political system that has allowed the pollution of the environmentally precious lagoon.
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BATTLE FOR MAR MENOR
STATEMENT: 55,000 people joined the demo.
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