191 mm in two hours? That’s 7.5 inches of rain for the metrically challenged, and that is a lot of rain. And more of that severe weather some in the U.S. pretend isn’t happening.
La Plata, Argentina (with a population of about a half-million) is experiencing what local officials are calling “an unprecedented catastrophe” with at least 40 dead and 2200 homeless according to early reports.
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The background of Mexican anti-clericalism and the "atheist" general who led the Catholic counter-revolution of the 1920s 128 pp., Editorial Mazatlán, 2012.
An oral history of the World War II experiences of Gilberto Bosques (1894 – 1997), Mexico 's Consul General in Marseilles, France, who saved tens of thousands from the Nazis. 36 pp. Editorial Mazatlán, 2007 $35 MXP (click the image)
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