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The rapporteur said there were more than 1,000 contaminated locations officially recorded in Mexico's National Inventory of Contaminated Sites, many of which he said had become "sacrifice zones," where diseases such as cancer, and medical events such as miscarriages, were normalized.
In a preliminary report summarizing his visit, he cited factories spewing hazardous waste into the Atoyac River in Puebla, huge industrial pig farms contaminating drinking water on the Yucatan peninsula and a decade-old mining chemical spill that continued to affect health in communities around the Sonora River.
He said many of these situations left residents struggling with dire health effects.
