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Mexico & Nafta - November 2018

One year after earthquakes, camping on the streets and diverted resources

Each year on 19 September in the morning schools and businesses in Mexico City follow an earthquake drill. It is a yearly routine to commemorate the 1985 earthquake – which took the lives of thousands of Mexicans and knocked down over 400 buildings. But in the afternoon of 19 September 2017, there was no drill. Thirty-two years later and on the same day, a 7.1 Richter scale earthquake shook Mexico City and its neighbouring states. On 7 September, another 8.5 magnitude earthquake had hit the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca – the states with the lowest income levels in the country. Both earthquakes left an estimated toll of 500 deaths, 250,000 people deprived of a home and 12m affected across the country.

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