For Evelio Jiménez, the damage from the BP oil spill of 2010 isn’t theoretical. He’s one of the thousands of fishermen along the six Mexican Gulf Coast states who said in a lawsuit that the oil spill destroyed their way of life.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nathanieljanowitz/bp-mexico-deepwater-horizon-oil?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
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People like Jiménez can only watch as BP invests in Mexico. He spoke of his shock at seeing a gas station with a big BP sunflower sign, “calmly working, as if they hadn’t done anything here.”pic.twitter.com/cuBRU0gq8R
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Edel Jiménez, Evelio’s older brother, solemnly adds: “We’re forgotten by the rulers, the politicians, the presidents. We just exist now. We lived from fishing. But now that’s over.”https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nathanieljanowitz/bp-mexico-deepwater-horizon-oil?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
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