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Mexico City, Nov. 19,1984. Shortly before dawn, liquefied-gas tanks exploded at the San Juan Ixhuatepec storage facility operated by state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos. The resulting fire took 452 lives and injured 4,248 in Mexico's largest industrial disaster; 1,000 people are still missing...
Nevertheless, the specter of a violent chemical explosion is very real. Late in November, for example, Mexico suffered its worst industrial calamity when a series of gas tanks exploded in San Juan Ixhuatepec, a suburb of Mexico City, killing 452 people...
...time, few people lived in the area; now the neighborhood is as crowded as the rest of Mexico City. Says one worried housewife: "If there were an accident, we would be talking of thousands of lives lost, not hundreds." In the aftermath of the San Juan Ixhuatepec disaster, there have been calls to shut down or relocate the refinery to more isolated quarters, but either course would cost a prohibitive $300 million. "High risk," said a report by the Mexican presidential commission on industrial accidents, "should not be interpreted as imminent danger...
...Ambassador John Gavin sent a check for $25,000, adding praise for "the generosity of individual Mexicans toward their countrymen." The compliment was well earned. On the morning of the explosions, neighbors in the surrounding community of Tlalnepantla took up a collection and then brought to San Juan Ixhuatepec boxes of crackers, canned vegetables and medicines. Next day they established themselves just outside the military cordon and distributed supplies to anyone who asked for them. By Wednesday there was such a flood of food and clothing that the radio called for a halt...
...gasoline-storage tank exploded in the central Mexican city of Tula last January. No one was injured then, but one died and 33 were hurt in another explosion in June in the state of Tabasco. A week later, a pipeline leak in Veracruz intoxicated 16. Inhabitants of San Juan Ixhuatepec claim a fire broke out there last June, but neighborhood protests got nowhere. Pemex Spokesman Salvador del Rio denies this, saying that there were no recent fires and that maintenance was "done continually...