Latin Americans March in NYC Against Climate Change
Latin America News Dispatch
By Camila Osario and Alex Hall
NEW YORK — The People’s Climate March drew more than 300,000 people to Manhattan on Sunday to demand world leaders to take action on climate change.
Demonstrators came from all over the world, including many from Latin America. Latino immigrant farmers from Florida and Dominican construction workers from the Bronx also joined the mix.
The march in New York, which came as world leaders began to gather here for the opening of the U.N. General Assembly this week, was the largest of 2,000 demonstrations that took place across the globe, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Smaller groups of demonstrators in several Latin American capitals, including Buenos Aires, Lima and Santiago de Chile, joined the demonstrations. A march planned in Rio de Janeiro that expected 30,000 participants got rained out, however, according to Terra. Some 5,000 marchers hit the streets in the Colombian capital of Bogotá.
