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Benicio del Toro abraza
a Piñones Sara M. Justicia Doll Noviembre 20, 2006 |
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CLICK HERE FOR THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THIS ARTICLE |
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El actor y ganador del Premio Oscar, Benicio del Toro,
se solidarizó ayer con la lucha de la comunidad de Piñones en contra del
proyecto Costa Serena y dijo que hará todo lo que esté a su alcance para
evitar que Puerto Rico "se convierta en un canto de cemento". |
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BELOW IS THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THIS ARTICLE (as translated electronically) |
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Benicio del Toro
embraces Piñones November 20, 2006 |
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The actor and Oscar winner, Benicio del Toro, supported yesterday with the fight of the community of Piñones against the project Costa Serena and said that he will do everything that is necessary to reach to avoid that Puerto Rico "becomes a cement song".
The visit of Benicio surprised many who participated in the activity "Cultural Bridge", an event that by four years has focused in celebrating the bonds of people loiceña with their roots afrocaribeñas. Like one more of the ready community and listening to the expositions of the opponents of Costa Serena, Benicio sat underneath a tree and he stayed kind.
He talked with the spokeswoman of the Corporation Piñones Integra, Maricruz Rivera Clemente, with the environmental adviser of the community, Carmen Guerrero, with the neighbor Yolanda Pizarro and the boy Christian Aguayo. The last mentioned one showed his preoccupation to him by the elimination of the playeras grapes, where he plays, and the destruction of his house, that is very near where it would be Costa Serena. It's one week after the actor sent a letter to governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá in which he defended that the Ecological Corridor of Noreste is detailed a natural reserves, Benicio had the opportunity to share with the Executive when they liberated Puerto Rican Cotorras in Arecibo, nevertheless, did not speak of Piñones nor of the letter.
"I was mentioned it and he said to me that we would have to speak, but he goes away now for vacations. But I have slope to speak with him about the subject. In addition, in the activity of Cotorras, I wondered myself why to liberate the airplane if there is no airport for it... if those Cotorras almost do not find any green places to where to go ", expressed the actor.
Benicio anticipated that possibly he sends a formal letter to Acevedo Vilá where also will support with the opposition to Costa Serena.
"In these subjects it is necessary to listen the people of the community, to the people who live in the places that are going to be hit away", Benicio declared, that spoke on an approach that also made to Edward James Olmos to take an active role in the environmental fight in Puerto Rico.
Of her part, environmental lawyer Jessica Rodriguez advanced that soon they will put under a reconsideration the motion of approval of the Declaration of Environmental Impact of Costa Serena, on the part of the Meeting of Environmental Quality.
They are activities like those of, in which an enormous rice with jueyes became, in that yesterday recalls the culinario art of the black that lived in Loíza. The opponents to Costa Serena fear that all those traditions will disappear.
"The Governor lost an excellent opportunity to diversify the tourist activity of the Island and what he did was to promote another tourist project that is more of the same. He is very far from the tendencies of the present tourism that aims at that every time people are looking for unique experiences, cultural and enriching like that they do not occur indeed in the context of a cement complex like the many others that it already has in Puerto Rico ", declared Carmen Guerrero. |
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(Photo: El pais Prismacom) |
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