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If a disaster occurred during tourist season aid would pour in, of course no one cares about the actual residents in the absence of wealthy foreigners
A lot of planning goes into preparing the aid that places receive after level 5 hurricanes. They're anticipated well in advance and things like the infrastructure to deliver starts getting ready.
While there's probably some truth to what you say, the world got caught with its pants down on this one. From a tropical storm to level 5 hurricane in 12h is unheard of.
No one was ready for this. No preparations.
Many people would have evacuated had they had time as well. So now there's way more people to aid then usual.
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Here’s local investigative journalist who placed AirTags in donations meant to go to Turkey earlier this year. Even if local officials had been prepared for this natural disaster the results would be the same. If you read the comments there’s testimonial about a previous disaster that caused flooding where the people of Acapulco had to take care of themselves in the same fashion.
You are simply wrong. No amount of planning would have helped these people.
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That’s a bit ignorant. They were talking about it on NPR and the biggest issue is that the roads were washed away in the area so it’s really difficult for the army to reach the town with relief supplies.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — In a city without water, electricity or gasoline, where desperate people have been allowed, even encouraged, to take essential goods from damaged stores since Hurricane Otis smashed Acapulco, state police officer Raúl Gallardo stood guard over a mountain of excess.
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It was not isolated to any particular neighborhood or carried out under cover of darkness, but widespread and in full view of authorities, who have conceded they do not have the resources or in most cases the will to intervene.
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It is also a continuation of a government strategy that addresses problems — drug violence, natural disasters — with personnel, but not necessarily the tools to resolve the situation.
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“If I were the owner of those stores, I would never reopen them,” Eduardo Ahedo said as he worked to repair his small eco-hotel, Wayahnb’al, near the avenue.
Ahedo’s cone-shaped adobe rooms appeared to have fared fairly well, but Otis blew out windows and the solar panels that had powered his business and turned his pool an uninviting green.
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That is the plan in general: Help the people affected, and at the same time have tourism get back to normal in the beautiful port of Acapulco.”
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