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Activists gather at US-Mexico border to clean up Rio Grande

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Ciudad Juárez, Oct 17 (EFE).- Mexican and American activists gathered on Sunday at the border to clean up the Rio Grande (or Rio Bravo), contaminated for weeks by sewage spill from a company in El Paso, Texas. More than 500 members of Rotary clubs and volunteers from both sides of the border joined the project "Together let's clean the Rio Bravo", which occurred simultaneously in the Mexican border cities of Ciudad Juárez, Piedras Negras, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Matamoros. (Camera: RAÚL MORALES). SHOT LIST: VOLUNTEERS CLEAN UP RIO GRANDE AT THE MEXICO-US BORDER, IN CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO.

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