Port Arthur residents suffer health crisis from Aramco refinery as oil giant burnishes image with World Cup sponsorship

'This is a hellhole,' says Johnson, gesturing at the refinery. 'They don't care about us. They care about money.'

'We are living in a sacrifice zone,' says Hilton Kelley, a community activist who has been fighting the refinery for decades. 'They take our health, our air, our water, and give us nothing but profits.'

'When I see those World Cup ads with Aramco's clean, green image, I want to scream,' says Maria Gonzalez, a mother of two who lives within a mile of the refinery. 'That's not the company I know. The company I know makes my children cough blood.'

'The cancer rate in this neighborhood is three times the national average,' says Dr. James Whitfield, a local physician. 'And it's getting worse, not better.'

'They have the money to sponsor a World Cup but not to install proper scrubbers on their stacks,' says Kelley. 'That tells you everything you need to know about their priorities.'