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A little about Playa Zipolite, The Beach of the Dead . . .

Playa Zipolite, Oaxaca, Southern Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean. A little bit about my favorite little get-away on this small world of ours.

Zipolite, a sweaty 30-minute walk west from Puerto Angel, brings you to Playa Zipolite and another world. The feeling here is 1970's - Led Zep, Marley, and scruffy gringos.

A long, long time ago, Zipolite beach was usually visited by the Zapotecans...who made it a magical place. They came to visit Zipolite to meditate, or just to rest.

Recently, this beach has begun to receive day-trippers from Puerto Angel and Puerto Escondido, giving it a more TOURISTY feel than before.

Most people come here for the novelty of the nude beach, yoga, turtles, seafood, surf, meditation, vegetarians, discos, party, to get burnt by the sun, or to see how long they can stretch their skinny budget.

I post WWW Oaxaca, Mexico, Zipolite and areas nearby information. Also general budget, backpacker, surfer, off the beaten path, Mexico and beyond, information.

REMEMBER: Everyone is welcome at Zipolite.

ivan

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Help us put immediate and relentless pressure on the Mexican Government to start cleaning up this oil spill NOW! Write the Mexican government and demand they clean this oil spill up NOW! http://www.conanp.gob.mx/contacto.php



  1. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.    shared a link.
    2 hours ago
    Locals are attempting to clean up their beaches by hand!
    Pemex still has not started cleaning up any of their mess on the beaches impacted by the crude oil spill and the Pemex oil spill still sits out in the Pacific Ocean suffocating the Pacific Ocean waters and Pacific Ocean Marine Life off the Oaxaca coast!

    Niños y surfistas detectan hidrocarburos en playa tortuguera y de manglares
    www.costasalvaje.com
    WiLDCOAST represents the next generation of world-class environmental groups whose mission is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and protect wildlife.
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  3. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.shared a status.
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    We the People of United North America are going to "flood" the Mexican government with letters, emails, and phone calls in our North American unified continental "Public Outrage" flooding campaign about this crude oil spill they are trying to abandon and are refusing to start clean up efforts on.
    We are going to do a North American continental triple whammy "flooding" of the Mexican federal govern...    See More
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    Here are this weeks insights, this is how many people we have reached during our first week of operations on facebook! We are making a difference! Keep spreading the word!

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  8. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.shared a link.
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    We want to give a shout out to our friends at Surfer Magazine and thank them for their media support in helping us inform the Surfers about this Pemex oil spill! Thanks for your support Surfer Magazine! http://www.surfermag.com/industry-news/pemex-oil-spill-in-oaxaca-mexico/

    PEMEX Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico
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    Spill Threatens Sea Turtles and World-Class Surfing Beaches
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  9. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.shared "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.'sphoto.
    Saturday
    It was estimated by non governmental environmental coalitions and local fishermen who rely on the fish in the area for their food supply and their families employment that over 600,000 liters of crude oil leaked into the Pacific Ocean at Sa...See More
    The oil spill has affected more than 500 families living from the sea and caused the death of flora and fauna, mainly of four beaches, of which the Marquis of Salina has resulted in more damage. File EL UNIVERSAL

    Photo: The oil spill has affected more than 500 families living from the sea and caused the death of flora and fauna, mainly of four beaches, of which the Marquis of Salina has resulted in more damage. File EL UNIVERSAL
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  10. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.
    Saturday
    We the People of United North America are going to "flood" the Mexican government with letters, emails, and phone calls in our North American unified continental "Public Outrage" flooding campaign about this crude oil spill they are trying to abandon and are refusing to start clean up efforts on.
    We are going to do a North American continental triple whammy "flooding" of the Mexican federal govern...    See More
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  11. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.updated their cover photo.
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  12. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.updated their cover photo.
    August 29
    Crude oil spill by Pemex in Oaxaca left unattended and spreading in the Pacific Ocean for 2 weeks with no official Mexican Press Release to the public for 2 weeks. The spill was abandoned and the truth of the oil spill was hidden from the public for 2 weeks as massive toxic poisoning to pacific coast marine life continued, and it still not being cleaned up! The crude oil spill is now threatening many surfing destinations in Oaxaca. It has contaminated world class surfing destination Salina Cruz and is spreading to other surf breaks in Oaxaca! Surfers Beware! This crude is traveling! Who will want to surf in this toxic waste? Not me! — in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca.

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  13. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.
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    WILDCOAST is organizing a physical in person international protest at the Pemex Congress on September 11th and they are joining with Greenpeace in this international protest and have requested my media assistance to help them gather the local Salina Cruz Surfers and Surf Camp Owners in Salina Cruz to join them with Boards in Hand at this protest!
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    e...    See More

    Salina Cruz, Oaxaca
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  14. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.shared "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.'salbum.
    August 29
    crude oil contaminating prestine surfing beaches.

    Photo: crude oil contaminating prestine surfing beaches.

    Photo: Crude oil spill by Pemex in Oaxaca left unattended and spreading in the Pacific Ocean for 2 weeks with no official Mexican Press Release to the public for 2 weeks. The spill was abandoned and the truth of the oil spill was hidden from the public for 2 weeks as massive toxic poisoning to pacific coast marine life continued, and it still not being cleaned up! The crude oil spill is now threatening many surfing destinations in Oaxaca. It has contaminated world class surfing destination Salina Cruz and is spreading to other surf breaks in Oaxaca! Surfers Beware! This crude is traveling! Who will want to surf in this toxic waste? Not me!

    Photo: crude oil contaminating prestine surfing beaches.

    Photo: crude oil sticking to surfers boards.
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      • WiLDCOAST 
        It is imperative that you contact us so we can begin to plan a big protest at the PEMEX Congress on Sept. 11th==with surfers and boards, we are going to work with Greenpeace--but we need local surfers from Salina Cruz and the region to part...See More
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  15. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.shared a link.
    August 28
    A funeral for an endangered species. Thousands of sea turtles made their way through the Pemex crude oil spill in the Pacific Ocean over the weekend to arrive at their nest to lay their eggs. They will not survive, and neither will their ha...See More

    Pemex ensucia playas de arribo de tortugas y de surf y aparecen quelonios muertos
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    WiLDCOAST/COSTASALVAjE constató que playas de anidación de tortugas marinas fueron invadidas por residuos de crudo que Pemex derramó en sus instalaciones de ...
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  17. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.shared "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.'sphoto.
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    please share this photo!
    Oaxaca's coastal children discovering a dead sea turtle poisoned by the crude oil spill on the beach. Seven species of sea turtles were found dead on Tuesday in three different beaches. Photo by COSTASALVAjE
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    Photo: Oaxaca's coastal children discovering a dead sea turtle poisoned by the crude oil spill on the beach. Seven species of sea turtles were found dead on Tuesday in three different beaches. Photo by COSTASALVAjE ---------------------------------------------------------- Seven species of sea turtles were found dead on three different turtle nesting beaches. Some of these are world wide endangered species that face extinction from this toxic poisoning at this time of their yearly arrival to their egg laying nests. Also the crude oil has now reached several fresh water lagoons around Hautulco and has killed fish and crab populations that the local fishermen rely on for food and employment. Let your voice be heard NOW! Write the Mexican government officials and demand that they start cleaning up this oil spill and that they do it correctly! Let's make sure that they don't do what BP did to the Gulf Of Mexico when they introduced more toxic deadly chemicals during the clean up that mutated all the fish, crustateans, and shrimp that the Gulf fishermen relied on. The Gulf of Mexico will never recover from that global atrocity. And 23 years later after the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska there are still NO FISH in those waters either and those fishing villages lost their way of life, their jobs, their culture, their whole villages economic system collapsed and there were extremely high spikes of alcoholism, rage, and divorce rates and families were literally torn apart from the emotional, physical, and financial stress that they endured from that tragedy that was beyond normal human experience, and they are all still dependant on government assistance in all the fishing villages that were wiped out by that oil spill. Wake up people! Speak up NOW!
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  19. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.shared "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.'sphoto.
    August 28

    Crude oil spill by Pemex in Oaxaca left unattended and spreading in the Pacific Ocean for 2 weeks with no official Mexican Press Release to the public for 2 weeks. The spill was abandoned and the truth of the oil spill was hidden from the p...See More

    Photo: Crude oil spill by Pemex in Oaxaca left unattended and spreading in the Pacific Ocean for 2 weeks with no official Mexican Press Release to the public for 2 weeks. The spill was abandoned and the truth of the oil spill was hidden from the public for 2 weeks as massive toxic poisoning to pacific coast marine life continued, and it still not being cleaned up! The crude oil spill is now threatening many surfing destinations in Oaxaca. It has contaminated world class surfing destination Salina Cruz and is spreading to other surf breaks in Oaxaca! Surfers Beware! This crude is traveling! Who will want to surf in this toxic waste? Not me!
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  20. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.shared "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.'sphoto.
    August 28
    Morro Ayuta, Oaxaca is one of the three beaches for the massive ridley sea turltes arrival in Mexico. Those are not turtles! you see Those are are massive clumps of crude oil contaminating their nesting grounds! The turtles are arriving in an oil spill toxic mess! Photo by COSTASALVAjE

    Photo: Morro Ayuta, Oaxaca is one of the three beaches for the massive ridley sea turltes arrival in Mexico. Those are not turtles! you see Those are are massive clumps of crude oil contaminating their nesting grounds! The turtles are arriving in an oil spill toxic mess! Photo by COSTASALVAjE
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  21. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.shared a link.
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    Please watch this! We are seeking a volunteer bilingual video producer who can translate this video into English subtitles for us, so we can reach the English speaking news media with this video! We are seeking any volunteer video producer ...See More

    ecocidio salina cruz
    Despues del Hundimiento de la monoboya 3 Propiedad de Petroleos Mexicanos no hay acciones para limpiar el desatre ocacionado por el crudo que esta regado por...
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  22. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.
    August 28
    Please share this page like crazy EVERYWHERE! Wildcoast is getting some spanish speaking media to cover this oil spill but they need local residents in the Salina Cruz area to talk to this television media when they come to the Salina Cruz area to cover the oil spill so we can keep pressuring Pemex harder with television media coverage of the local residents public outrage! If you live in the Salina Cruz area please contact us immediately! We need locals from Salina Cruz to help get a message out to the television media! Help us with this call out to all surfers and/or fishermen who live in the Salina Cruz area! Alert them they we need their voice on video for the media! thanks, Donna Love
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  23. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.
    August 28
    Photo's from Las Palmeras Surf Camp, Salina Cruz, Oaxaca(6 photos)

    Crude oil spill by Pemex in Oaxaca left unattended and spreading in the Pacific Ocean for 2 weeks with no official Mexican Press Release to the public for 2 weeks. The spill was abandoned and the truth of the oil spill was hidden from the p...See More

    Photo: crude oil contaminating prestine surfing beaches.

    Photo: Crude oil spill by Pemex in Oaxaca left unattended and spreading in the Pacific Ocean for 2 weeks with no official Mexican Press Release to the public for 2 weeks. The spill was abandoned and the truth of the oil spill was hidden from the public for 2 weeks as massive toxic poisoning to pacific coast marine life continued, and it still not being cleaned up! The crude oil spill is now threatening many surfing destinations in Oaxaca. It has contaminated world class surfing destination Salina Cruz and is spreading to other surf breaks in Oaxaca! Surfers Beware! This crude is traveling! Who will want to surf in this toxic waste? Not me!

    Photo: crude oil contaminating prestine surfing beaches.

    Photo: crude oil sticking to surfers boards.
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  24. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.shared "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.'sphoto.
    August 27
    Oaxaca's coastal children discovering a dead sea turtle poisoned by the crude oil spill on the beach. Seven species of sea turtles were found dead on Tuesday in three different beaches. Photo by COSTASALVAjE
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    Photo: Oaxaca's coastal children discovering a dead sea turtle poisoned by the crude oil spill on the beach. Seven species of sea turtles were found dead on Tuesday in three different beaches. Photo by COSTASALVAjE ---------------------------------------------------------- Seven species of sea turtles were found dead on three different turtle nesting beaches. Some of these are world wide endangered species that face extinction from this toxic poisoning at this time of their yearly arrival to their egg laying nests. Also the crude oil has now reached several fresh water lagoons around Hautulco and has killed fish and crab populations that the local fishermen rely on for food and employment. Let your voice be heard NOW! Write the Mexican government officials and demand that they start cleaning up this oil spill and that they do it correctly! Let's make sure that they don't do what BP did to the Gulf Of Mexico when they introduced more toxic deadly chemicals during the clean up that mutated all the fish, crustateans, and shrimp that the Gulf fishermen relied on. The Gulf of Mexico will never recover from that global atrocity. And 23 years later after the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska there are still NO FISH in those waters either and those fishing villages lost their way of life, their jobs, their culture, their whole villages economic system collapsed and there were extremely high spikes of alcoholism, rage, and divorce rates and families were literally torn apart from the emotional, physical, and financial stress that they endured from that tragedy that was beyond normal human experience, and they are all still dependant on government assistance in all the fishing villages that were wiped out by that oil spill. Wake up people! Speak up NOW!
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  25. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.shared a link.
    August 27
    For starters we are encouraging everybody in U.S.A and Mexico to immediately contact Mexico's "National Commission of Natural Protected Areas" (CONANP). The U.S.A NPS (National Park Service) has worked together with CONANP on several wildli...See More

    National Park Service Press Releases
    www.nps.gov
    National Park Service Press Releases
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  26. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.
    August 27
    Please "share" this page with your friends on facebook! United we stand!
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  27. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.updated their cover photo.
    August 26
    I am asking that hundreds of people in the surfing industry and the ocean protection industry to PLEASE hit the share button on our banner to help our public awareness outreach campaign this week! Time is running out and this is an urgent matter! If you make our banner your "cover" photo this week only, then that would even be more helpful! — in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca.

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  28. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.shared "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.'sphoto.
    August 26
    Seven species of sea turtles were found dead on three different turtle nesting beaches. Some of these are world wide endangered species that face extinction from this toxic poisoning at this time of their yearly arrival to their egg laying ...See More
    Oaxaca's coastal children discovering a dead sea turtle poisoned by the crude oil spill on the beach. Seven species of sea turtles were found dead on Tuesday in three different beaches. Photo by COSTASALVAjE
    --------------------------------...See More

    Photo: Oaxaca's coastal children discovering a dead sea turtle poisoned by the crude oil spill on the beach. Seven species of sea turtles were found dead on Tuesday in three different beaches. Photo by COSTASALVAjE ---------------------------------------------------------- Seven species of sea turtles were found dead on three different turtle nesting beaches. Some of these are world wide endangered species that face extinction from this toxic poisoning at this time of their yearly arrival to their egg laying nests. Also the crude oil has now reached several fresh water lagoons around Hautulco and has killed fish and crab populations that the local fishermen rely on for food and employment. Let your voice be heard NOW! Write the Mexican government officials and demand that they start cleaning up this oil spill and that they do it correctly! Let's make sure that they don't do what BP did to the Gulf Of Mexico when they introduced more toxic deadly chemicals during the clean up that mutated all the fish, crustateans, and shrimp that the Gulf fishermen relied on. The Gulf of Mexico will never recover from that global atrocity. And 23 years later after the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska there are still NO FISH in those waters either and those fishing villages lost their way of life, their jobs, their culture, their whole villages economic system collapsed and there were extremely high spikes of alcoholism, rage, and divorce rates and families were literally torn apart from the emotional, physical, and financial stress that they endured from that tragedy that was beyond normal human experience, and they are all still dependant on government assistance in all the fishing villages that were wiped out by that oil spill. Wake up people! Speak up NOW!
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  29. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.
    August 26
    Untitled Album (3 photos)

    Photo: Morro Ayuta, Oaxaca is one of the three beaches for the massive ridley sea turltes arrival in Mexico. Those are not turtles! you see Those are are massive clumps of crude oil contaminating their nesting grounds! The turtles are arriving in an oil spill toxic mess! Photo by COSTASALVAjE

    Photo: Crude lumps appeared on Ayuta Morro beach, considered the second beach massive arrival of sea turtles in the Mexican Pacific. Pemex personnel, Profepa and Mexican Turtle Center inspected the area of 16 miles of beach. Photo by COSTASALVAjE

    Photo: Oaxaca's coastal children discovering a dead sea turtle poisoned by the crude oil spill on the beach. Seven species of sea turtles were found dead on Tuesday in three different beaches. Photo by COSTASALVAjE ---------------------------------------------------------- Seven species of sea turtles were found dead on three different turtle nesting beaches. Some of these are world wide endangered species that face extinction from this toxic poisoning at this time of their yearly arrival to their egg laying nests. Also the crude oil has now reached several fresh water lagoons around Hautulco and has killed fish and crab populations that the local fishermen rely on for food and employment. Let your voice be heard NOW! Write the Mexican government officials and demand that they start cleaning up this oil spill and that they do it correctly! Let's make sure that they don't do what BP did to the Gulf Of Mexico when they introduced more toxic deadly chemicals during the clean up that mutated all the fish, crustateans, and shrimp that the Gulf fishermen relied on. The Gulf of Mexico will never recover from that global atrocity. And 23 years later after the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska there are still NO FISH in those waters either and those fishing villages lost their way of life, their jobs, their culture, their whole villages economic system collapsed and there were extremely high spikes of alcoholism, rage, and divorce rates and families were literally torn apart from the emotional, physical, and financial stress that they endured from that tragedy that was beyond normal human experience, and they are all still dependant on government assistance in all the fishing villages that were wiped out by that oil spill. Wake up people! Speak up NOW!
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  30. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.
    August 26
    Thank you Oceanforce and Ocean Defender for your support!
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  31. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.shared "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.'sphoto.
    August 26
    It was estimated by environmentalist and fishermen that over 600,000 liters of crude oil leaked into the Pacific Ocean by Pemex, who lied to the public and stated that it was only 10,000 liters.
    The oil spill has affected more than 500 families living from the sea and caused the death of flora and fauna, mainly of four beaches, of which the Marquis of Salina has resulted in more damage. File EL UNIVERSAL

    Photo: The oil spill has affected more than 500 families living from the sea and caused the death of flora and fauna, mainly of four beaches, of which the Marquis of Salina has resulted in more damage. File EL UNIVERSAL
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  33. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.shared Cesar Ramirez's photo.
    August 25
    Help us put North American public continental pressure on the Mexican government to start cleaning up this two week oil spill in the Pacific Ocean IMMEDIATELY! Sea Life is dying and 9 pristine beaches have been impacted on the Pacific Coast! Help us all "flood" the Mexican governmemt with letters, emails, and phone calls from all of the Pacific Coast Regions in all of U.S.A, Mexico, and Canada!

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  35. "Pemex Oil Spill in Oaxaca, Mexico not being cleaned up.
    August 24
    Press Release August 24, 2012,

    PEMEX OIL SPILL IN OAXACA, MEXICO, THREATENS SEA TURTLES AND WORLD-CLASS SURFING BEACHES

    WiLDCOAST Asks Mexican Government to Start Cleanup and Establish Restoration and Compensation Fund

    A PEMEX oil spill in the port of Salina Cruz in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca went uncontained for 11 days along Pacific Coast beaches, impacting more than 12 miles of coastl...    See More
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