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September 11, 2005
Latina Katrina
In Latin American press, much is being made of the collapse in aid to the Gulf region of Hurricane Katrina. Particular attention is being paid to the ouster of FEMA jefe Mike Brown and the Bush Administration’s general inability to hem in a protean bureaucracy after September 11th. Nicaragua’s El Nuevo Diario (centrist) discusses Brown’s perceived incompetence while the online Argentinian magazine Clarín (independent) calls FEMA an organization “responsible (supposedly) for helping out in disasters” and claims that it has a mentality of political wrangling summed up as “today me, tomorrow you.” Editorials from a variety of political spectrums in Mexico have been similarly condemnatory of the problems with the federal chain of command and its disaster relief (El Universal (centrist), La Jornada (left-wing)).
Posted September 11, 2005 04:27 PM
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