AP/ Oops, there's goes the beautiful bahia de Cienfuegos...as Cuba plans to build three additional loading docks and a terminal large enough to accommodate modern supertankers by 2014.
A Soviet-era refinery there on the southern coast was refurbished with Venezuelan aid and has refined 55 million barrels of oil since December 2007... and increased serious air pollution.
The city of Cienfuegos itself has virtually become a Venezuelan outpost with many imported refinery workers living there. They even have their own barrio on the outskirts.
Eating fish taken from the bahia has been banned for several years...ever since a huge Soviet-era storage tank rusted away...spilling thousands of tons of ARSENIC into the waters.
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