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Adela Navarro

The forgotten ones of the government

Residents say that it already smells bad, that what follows in the midst of abandonment is sickness and death.
The forgotten ones of the government

By Adela Navarro

Of the 3.5 million inhabitants officially recognized in Guerrero, more than one million are victims of the impact of Hurricane Otis on Tuesday, October 24. From information shared through social networks, basically in videos, testimonies, interviews, experiences of citizens, it is known that many of them are in oblivion.

"They give a lot of relevance to Acapulco," explained one of those forgotten people, in an attempt to justify why the aid has not reached their town: "It stays in Acapulco."

But that is not very true either. In the misinformation that prevails in the face of the monopoly of official communication in the Presidency of the Republic, the reality is that Acapulco has not been attended to in accordance with the magnitude of the devastation suffered.

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