Word: ixhuatepec
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...exactly 5:42 a.m., just when the coming day seems to hesitate between darkness and dawn. Suddenly a torrent of fire from an exploding gas tank surged more than 300 ft. into the sky over the Mexico City suburb of San Juan Ixhuatepec, splashing it with hellish waves of orange, yellow, red, black. The chill dawn air became searing...
...mass funeral-which was also the 74th anniversary of the Mexican revolution and therefore had to be commemorated, after a moment of silence, by a marathon and a parade-Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado and several top officials helicoptered into ruined San Juan Ixhuatepec...
...their families gulping beans, rice and tortillas. "We are with you," he said. The government's relief effort was fast and effective, particularly for a nation that has been afflicted by recession, budget cutting and widespread corruption. Some 5,000 police and federal troops sealed off San Juan Ixhuatepec to prevent looting (27 looters were arrested). An additional 3,000 health workers, with 450 ambulances, sped the injured to hospitals and clinics. Within two hours after the government's first radio appeals for food, clothing and blood, the contributions began pouring...