Latin America

in La Oroya, Peru. He is known throughout the world for his unbelievable trashy, destructive businesses. The damage done to the people of Peru is ferocious. If people around there try to have pets for their kids, the pets die very quickly.
It IS that bad.

First article from the post:

Report on the situation in La Oroya : When investor protection threatens human rights
Last Update 7 May 2013

FIDH released a report on the situation in La Oroya, a city in the central Andean region of Peru that is at the center of a controversial case of industrial pollution caused by a poly-metallic smelter in operation since 1922.

For decades, the people of La Oroya have been exposed to high levels of air pollution stemming from the complex’s emissions of toxic substances including lead, cadmium, arsenic and sulfur dioxide. In the middle of the 2000s La Oroya was identified as one of the 10 most polluted cities in the world.

According to independent studies, 97% of children between the ages of 6 months and 6 years, and 98% of those between 7 and 12 years old still have high levels of lead in their blood. The percentage reaches 100% in La Oroya Antigua, the area closest to the smelter. The effects of lead poisoning are irreversible.

Doe Run Peru, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based Doe Run Company, began operating the complex after its privatization in 1997. Both the company and the Peruvian State have failed to comply with their obligations to prevent environmental impact and respect the human rights of the population of La Oroya. In response, the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA) and other organizations requested the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in 2005 to issue precautionary measures for people whose health was at serious risk from the pollution in the city. On August 31, 2007 the IACHR ordered the State to adopt measures to protect the health, integrity and life of a group of residents of La Oroya.

More:
http://www.fidh.org/report-on-the-situation-in-la-oroya-when-investor-protection-threatens-13241

More information follows:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/110816163


You have to wonder if he ever has any sleepless nights, knowing how hideous his way of making a living has been, destroying the lives of so very, very many people, robbing them of their very well-being. Poor people can't just get up and start somewhere else or move to one of their other mansions. They don't have the means to escape from Rennert's hell on earth.