City Of Oil
Latino USA
My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Los Angeles, you might be surprised to learn, sits on top of the largest urban oil field in the country and has been the site of oil extraction for almost 150 years. Today, nearly 5,000 oil wells remain active in Los Angeles County alone, many operating in communities of color, often very close to homes, schools and hospitals. Latino USA visits a neighborhood in South Los Angeles, the epicenter of an anti-oil-drilling movement that is gaining momentum. We meet Nalleli Cobo, the 19-year-old who’s working to shut down the oil industry, one well at a time.
This story originally aired in June of 2019.
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| 0:39.6 | So, it was around 2010, so I was about 9 going on 10 that I started getting really sick out |
| 0:52.7 | of nowhere. |
| 0:55.7 | Lily, Global, is now 19, but she was just a kid when she moved with her mom to University |
| 1:01.2 | Park, which is a neighborhood in South Los Angeles. |
| 1:04.4 | I got spontaneous nose bleeds extremely frequently. |
| 1:08.6 | They were so intense that I couldn't sleep horizontally anymore. |
| 1:12.3 | I had to sleep vertically so I wouldn't choke on my own blood. |
| 1:17.4 | She started getting body spasms to the point where she sometimes couldn't even walk. |
| 1:22.4 | She started getting heart palpitations, stomach pain and headaches. |
| 1:27.5 | Every day I had a different doctor's appointment. |
| 1:29.5 | I was cardiologist, neurologist, gastroenterologist, and all these other specialists and they never |
| 1:37.7 | found what was wrong with me. |
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