Nature against the world
by Barbora Misakova
It is believed that three hundred houses were buried in a rural Mexican community early Tuesday. While authorities in the town of Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec say about 7 killed and 100 missing people, numbers from state’s leader Ulises Ruiz differ – 4 killed and 12 missing. Whatever the numbers are, the situation is desperate. Communication with the town was impossible because of mud, rocks and in one case a collapsed bridge for 10 hours because they were blocking roads. What is more, bad weather prevented helicopters from being used so people had to wait till Red Cross workers reached them. Those residents who had luck and stayed alive were trying to dig out the! ir neighbors but without success. “We have been using a backhoe but there is a lot of mud. We can’t even see the homes, we can’t hear shouts, we can’t hear anything.” said Donato Vargas, an official in Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec. There is another hill in another area of town which threatens this Sierra Norte community which is maintaining its indigenous culture. “We are in a serious risk situation. In all of our neighborhoods there are houses and roads cracked and about to fall.” Vargas said. Heavy rains are troubling the whole Central America where it caused deadly floods and landslides. In Honduras, for instance, four people drowned in rivers swollen by Tropical Storm Matthew. Three adults died also in the town of El Oregano and one child in the Caribbean coast town of La Lima. About 30 people were killed by a landslide in Colombia. Nature is treating us badly, and again, there is nothing we can do to stop it.
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