The Rescue After Floods: a Large Deployment of Resources Meets Mexico’s Structural Deficiencies · Global Voices

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Through the still muddy streets of Poza Rica, Veracruz, one of the municipalities most affected by the floods of a week ago, you can see gangs of sailors with shovels collecting mud, throwing in trucks the useless items that people piled in front of their house, or distributing boxes with food. Through those streets of thick brown rivers they also navigate the state officials who are throwing a layer of lime to the mounds of objects —beds, refri…