In Guadeloupe and Martinique, where chlordecone has contaminated over 90 percent of the population, residents continue to demand financial compensation from the French government.

By Mathilde Augustin

As a kid in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, Georgina Lambert spent her days playing beneath banana trees and swimming in rivers that shimmered with sunlight. She had no idea that the soil beneath her feet, the water she swam in and the air she breathed were laced with chlordecone, an extremely toxic pesticide.

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