Update on the disaster in Southern Mexico

[nadinbrzezinski]

since our media will not cover it

The Mexican Red Cross has sent 290 tons of relief supplies, has 900 volunteers packing family boxes in Mexico City and 300 personnel in the field

Cardinal Rivera Carrera calls for a crusade to support Tabasco (and the Mexico City Dioceses is collecting goods and sending them to the area, 20 tons so far)

The Township of Ixtapaluca (State of Mexico) has sent two light rescue trucks with rescue divers and mountain rescue personnel

COSTCO Mexico is now supporting the Red Cross by accepting donations for the Red Cross

Cinepolis (A movie theater chain) has opened its theaters to gather what needed

Interjet, a small air freight company will transport five tons per day to the affected area

Heath and human services are now guaranteeing basic foods and medicines in Tabasco

And the losses for agriculture are at 500,000 million pesos... which is what a quarter of a billion US Dollars? I am feeling lazy to do the conversion.

Ok, now back to my work.... and I guess will try to keep people informed

[Junkdrawer]

1. 800,000 left homeless after water submerges most of state of Tabasco

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21590403/

[demnan]

2. Oh my God!

It's another Katrina. And Global Warming doesn't exisit? Duh!

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. The response, with far less resources

has been far more competent.

[Junkdrawer]

5. Who'd a thought that warming the whole planet several degrees would change the climate?

Droughts in formerly moist places...floods in arid areas...

:shrug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. I'd like to point several things

the first is the headline

Thousands is not the same as almost a million

By the by, last night the BBC was running the first million number and then the 800,000 in their headlines

Thirdly... our press has not told us if our government has offered any help (all offers are under review by the Cancilleria de la Republica, aka the State Department of Mexico). And no our press is not covering this the way it should

For good reason actually... comparisons ot Katrina are abounding...

[EST]

6. Thank you so much for this contribution.

I was only vaguely aware of the magnitude of the disaster. The best the warm stream media have done, as far as I know, concerning Mexico, was the immature teacher running off to Mexico with her thirteen year old student and his difficulty re-entering the country.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. CNN had some of this last night

according to my brother in law

I don't watch much teevee, so I don't know

[sandnsea]

7. The media had to tell the administration with Katrina

Maybe you will be the one to get the message to the media.

Every crisis like this has been the same. We had to scream at Bush after the tsunami too. He's worthless.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. I'lll be calling my US Senator and Congresswoman tomorrow

bear in mind the US had to make the offer for help (never mind the ARC has released 50K dollars so far, which means the CRM went inernational early on)... but the US has to offer the help, which then has to be accepted by Mexico.

In reality the USS Mercy should have been sent, but that is another story

[EFerrari]

9. K&R

[Annces]

11. So many people displaced

article from Prensa


State of Tabasco, are still waiting to be rescued Sunday in the sixth day of rivers overflowing.

From a control post set up in Tabasco by Civil Defense, authorities told Prensa Latina by phone that the floods of Grijalva, Samaria and Carrizal maintain the third part of Villahermosa under water and the level continues growing.

The number of victims, already estimated in a million, is expected to increase, while thousands of men, women and children wait in their roofs with the hope of being saved.

The officials recognized that more aid is needed, because when the people listen to a helicopter flying overhead, they raise their hands to call its attention, because they cannot wait any longer because of hunger and cold weather.

Power services are suspended since most of the districts are flooded and people have not received drinkable water services, they expressed when being asked.

http://www.plenglish.com/Article.asp?ID={CABAE1D5-BF40-4155-80BA-1AEF4D718EEB}&language=EN