Mañana… Tabasco and New Orleans
From Mexico Today:
++ Speaking in Villahermosa, President Felipe Calderón called on residents of Tabasco not to despair… Calderón, who was visiting Tabasco for the sixth time after tragedy struck, announced the start of a program to repair and replace homes damaged by heavy floods in the state.
George W. Bush’s FOURTH visit to New Orleans after the September 2005 hurricane/flood was in January 2006. On that occasion, “Bush touted tax breaks intended to create incentives to invest in the devastated region as an important tool in rebuilding.”
Meanwhile, the Ejido Juan de Grijalva, Chiapas — wiped out by what the press called a “fresh-water tsunami” (and the survivors suspect was a “controlled release” from upstream privately-owned dams) has been offered new land and resettlement terms have already been worked out.
.How long is it going to take to resettle displaced New Orleans folks? There are problems, of course, in Villahermosa, but restoration and resettlement work are continuing. It’s a whole ten days later, and a lot of people are still in shelters. As opposed to… oh… the five days it took to rescue people from the Superdome
mexfiles.net 