Peru Update: Thousands Still Not Getting Aid? Por que?

Wed29Aug2007

Peru Update: Thousands Still Not Getting Aid? Por que?

While it's been about two weeks since a grade 8 earthquake hit Peru but yesterday Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross announced that parts of the country look like the earthquake just happened because aid isn't reaching them.

Aunque el auxilio ha llegado a Pisco, e Ica, ciudades arrasadas por el sismo de 8 grados del 15 de agosto, Médicos Sin Fronteras envió el martes un comunicado a la AP en el que alertó que "decenas" de pequeños poblados se mantenían aislados y sin ayuda de ningún tipo, y sus residentes se encontraban durmiendo a la intemperie, apenas con agua o apenas comiendo algo.

According to the international organizations, people in small towns with populations of about 10,000, people are sleeping under trees, exposed to the elements, having had 95% of the homes destroyed or made unlivable. People are lining up along the Pan American Highway, looking for a ride to escape growing unhygienic conditions.

This is really disturbing news to me. If people around the world are sending aid why isn't it getting where it is most needed? So much for President Alan Garcia's savior complex. Maybe the comparison to Giuliani makes more sense than I originally thought.

Via / Yahoo! Telemundo Noticias

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1. E ~ Friday, Aug 31 2007 | 09:42H:

This does not surprice me. My family lived in a farm near the epicenter of the 70's Peru earthquake. They did not receive any kind of help until 4 months after the earthquake. They had to live in the open while they reconstructed their houses. It is shamefull.
If you need to know anything about Peru is that if you live in a small town (or even bigger towns)there is ussually very little or no help from the central government in terms of building infrastructure. In Peru, if you live outside of Lima, Cuzco or Arequipa you might as well not exist, so it does not surprise me that help is not getting to those little pueblitos. Also, while the government has been trying to fight unscrupulous government workers who want to pocket donations I still believe this happens.

Don't get me started about Alan though... I don't know what is wrong with us Peruvians and not remembering what Alan did on the '80s.

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