Samarco, the Brazilian mining company partially responsible for the mudslide that killed at least nine people and wreaked untold ecological damages in Minas Gerais, has announced that it will pay local fishermen US$27 a day to bury dead fish. At least one local resident interviewed by teleSUR, however, believes that the fishermen are being used to improve Samarco’s image and doubts that they will ever get paid. Immense quantities of mud have already reached the sea, causing widespread environmental and social damage. teleSUR
