One Year After Hurricane Earl, Officials Still Haven’t Delivered on Promises of Aid for Puebla Victims Mexico News Daily | |
go to original August 3, 2017 |
When Hurricane Earl wreaked havoc in Mexico last year, residents asked for help (Al Jazeera English)
Fallen bridges, destroyed houses and schools and people without a place to live are the aftermath of an Atlantic hurricane that struck the Puebla communities of Chicahuaxtla and Xaltepec one year ago.
Hurricane Earl made landfall in Veracruz on August 5, subsequently killing 20 in both towns and severely damaging local infrastructure.
Residents say public officials of all levels of government responded promptly and travelled to the towns, located in the adjoining municipalities of Tlaola and Huauchinango.
Governor Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas and his succcessor, José Antonio Gali Fayad, visited as did Secretary of Agrarian Development and Urban Planning Rosario Robles and other government officials, all promising to rebuild. But in the end all they did was take the official photos and leave, say residents.
“They’ve forgotten about us. We don’t know why no one came back with the public works projects they promised,” charged Elodia Amador. “It’s like, as far as they’re concerned, nothing happened here.”
In Chicahuaxtla, Micaela Picazo Ortiz told the newspaper Reforma that “the town’s already dead. Nobody’s done anything for us, they forgot and here we are in fear of the same thing happening, only worse this time, because everything’s already destroyed.”
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