Oddbean new post about login | logout I'm no longer on twitter at all, what's happening in Acapulco?
Category 5 Hurricane hit Acapulco last week with no warning. In essence, it quite literally erased the city. As Mexico is distasteful prone, we had a disaster fund for these cases which the gov disappeared because of “corruption”. Disaster hit & now all the resources to rebuild are gone. As all orders of gov are from the ruling party and there’s elections next year, they are keeping it quiet. The death toll is in the thousands but they are underreporting them. Search for Chef José Andrés & World Central Kitchen … he’s there helping out. Also check out: http://hurricaneotisrecovery.com/ It’s run by DollarVigilante over at the bird app.
Thanks, I was able to find out about the hurricane on my own, but not the grift. Unconscionable.
This is basically what happened … When the ruling party won, they started extinguishing trusts they deemed “corrupt” to reroute those funds into the Tren Maya (which is devastating the Mayan Jungle & acquifers), & Dos Bocas Refinery, two presidential projects being built by the military. Amongst these trusts was the FONDEN. A relief fund meant for rapid response & emergency reconstruction for disaster areas. Now that disaster struck, there’s no money & the military & it’s resources are being misused elsewhere. Our Congress just passed the 2024 budget with $0 allocation to Acapulco. Since 2024 is an election year, they are underreporting the death toll, pretending everything is fine while there’s definitely a media blackout around it. It’s astounding that a 1M pop city got erased & it’s not on the news …