Taco de Baja
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Not Baja News - Up to 1,000 feared dead after landslide buries Mexico town in Oaxaca
Sad story.
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| Quote: | Up to 1,000 feared dead after landslide buries Mexico town
OAXACA, Mexico — Up to 1,000 people might have perished after a rain-soaked mountainside gave way and buried hundreds of homes in southwestern Mexico,
the local governor said Tuesday.
Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz told the Televisa television network that the 4 a.m. landslide wiped-out at least 300 homes in the town of Santa Maria
Tlahuitoltepec, population 9,000.
"There could be between 500, 600 people, maybe 1,000" dead, the governor told Televisa.
"We haven't reached the location yet," Ruiz said, adding that rescue teams were being dispatched to the area.
"There has been lots of rain, rivers have overflowed and we're having a hard time reaching the area because there are landslides on the roads," he
added.
Heavy rain in the mountains of Oaxaca state loosened the soil around the town, about four hours' drive from the capital of Oaxaca, a city famous for
its colonial buildings and nearby archeological sites.
Heavy rains have fallen on Central America and parts of Mexico for days as two storm systems moved across the western Caribbean.
Parts of Mexico are enduring their worst rainy season on record, which has triggered heavy flooding and forced thousands of people from their homes in
vulnerable parts of the country.
In Oaxaca state alone, rains and flooding in recent days have claimed 10 lives and impacted 250,000 people. |
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I am following this story as well. The ground is saturated from the rainstorms- and the carved-up hillsides are too heavy to stay vertical. This
scale of an event always seems to impact the people with the least support and resources. Very sad.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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bajajazz
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There is no excuse for this kind of civic negligence.
In terms of its natural resources, Mexico is and always has been a rich country, just as blessed as the United States. The difference being that
wealth in the U.S. was devoted to regulated infrastructure development, while Mexico's wealth has been systematically stolen by the oligarchs and
their self-serving government of kleptomaniacs.
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Another fact to consider is that Oaxaca is one of the poorest states in Mexico, in terms of municipal resources, and this tragedy took place in an
extremely rural indigenous area. Whatever state funds were available went to local caciques, and were never invested in infrastructure.
Plus, building in these rural areas is always haphazard, there are no storm systems, and eventually these shaky slopes "exceed the angle of repose"
and slide. This beautiful area of the Mixteca Alta is quite steep, and becoming overpopulated.
Que triste. 
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Skeet/Loreto
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News Media reporting 7 Dead with 100 missing this hour.
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Mudslide report was in error
NPR news at 3PM 9/29 says only 3-5 houses were damaged and the city mayor issued an appology for reporting incorrect information
Things are expensive, but at least we get a free trip around the sun once a year
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