BIG BAD STAN
Mexico, still recovering from Hurricane Stan, suffered over 30 deaths from mudslides & flooding – and although it endured many less deaths as compared to El Salvador & Guatemala, recovery is still taking a long time.

An El Universal article tells us that with all of the flooding in Chiapas, kids are missing school. The reason: the school buildings have literally floated away. In addition to that, the communities and families have lost everything else, as is common in floodings: books, uniforms, school supplies.

GIBSON IN TOWN, DONATES $1 MILLION
Today Mel Gibson met briefly with Mexican President Vicente Fox, and offered to donate $1 Million USD to help the victims of Hurricane Stan. Gibson is currently in Mexico filming his new movie Apocalypto which takes place 3,000 years ago and will be filmed completely in the Mayan language.

WILMA!
Meanwhile, Wilma has become a much stronger storm than was anticipated. President Fox has stated that the Yucatan region is prepared, has declared a state of emergency and elevated the warning level to orange. Evacuations of coastal areas have begun and all tourists have been encouraged to go home.

Already blamed for several deaths, Wilma will affect many countries in Central America & the Caribbean, even if it doesn’t make landfall. The amount of rains and winds that it will bring just from being close by is expected to cause quite a bit of damage.

MTV LATIN AMERICA VMA’S CANCELLED
The MTVLA VMAs that were originally scheduled to occur on Thursday and were later moved up to Wednesday due to Hurricane Wilma, have now been cancelled. Citing safety reasons, as well as show integrity (cancellations of performers, etc), as the reasons. Good call MTV. Maybe the show dates should be played around with a bit, because the recent VMAs in Miami were affected also by Hurricane Rita.

El Universal: Classes disrupted by flooding in Chiapas
MTVLA VMA Cancellation
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