Hundreds of people, many of them children, have fallen ill after being exposed to toxic pollution since the beginning of June in the Chilean cities of Quintero and Puchuncaví. With widespread pollution from heavy industry and harmful cases of contamination in the past, the region is considered a “sacrifice zone” of the country. Residents point to pollution from a local industrial park that was developed by the state in the 1950s. The park now contains coal-fired power plants, copper and oil refineries and chemical plants. Greenpeace even nicknamed the site the “Chilean Chernobyl”. Problems like these have been recurrent in the area, inhabited by around 50,000 people. Are people likely to die from die due to pollution ?

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