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Aid for storm victims now en route to Texas Shipment may arrive Wednesday although US has not accepted the offer
Aid for storm victims now en route to Texas
Shipment may arrive Wednesday although US has not accepted the offer
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Mexican aid for victims of Hurricane Harvey will arrive in Texas this week although the United States government has not made an official announcement to accept it.
Mexican authorities said assistance could reach the Lone Star State as early as Wednesday after the first shipment travels by land through Nuevo Laredo on the Tamaulipas-Texas border.
“This morning we gave the green light to start concentrating the goods that will be sent to the United States,” undersecretary for North American relations Carlos Manuel Sada told CNN.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott stated publicly that he welcomes Mexico’s help and is working to coordinate the efforts.
Twenty-five trailers filled with basic goods including rice, beans, coffee and chocolate as well as 300 beds, nine electrical generators, water treatment equipment, three mobile kitchens and radio and satellite equipment are being prepared to be sent along with more personnel.
Mexican Red Cross volunteers and firefighters were deployed to the state in the aftermath of the disaster.
“We are very pleased to be able to support our brothers in need on the other side of the border,” Sada said.
The federal government first offered the aid to the U.S. in a statement August 27 that also addressed President Donald Trump’s tweets from the same day about Mexico in relation to NAFTA renegotiations and who will pay for his border wall.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson thanked his Mexican counterpart, Luis Videgaray, for the offer but he did not publicly accept it.
Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Secretariat said Mexico offered the aid “as good neighbors should always do in difficult times.”
Sada said “if it were the other way around I think they would help us, too.”
However, government officials told CNN that the U.S. government had not made any offer of assistance as the cleanup begins of the trail of destruction left by tropical storm Lidia in Baja California Sur. Lidia caused widespread damage and was responsible for at least seven deaths.
It’s not the first time that Mexico has sent aid and assistance to its northern neighbor after a natural disaster.
Mexican armed forces contributed to recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that devastated New Orleans, Louisiana, in August 2005. That deployment was the first time Mexican troops had set foot in the U.S. on active duty since the Mexican-American war in 1846.
Sunday, September 3, 2017
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Friday, September 1, 2017
Mexico: Puebla loses 50% of hot peppers harvest due to rains FreshPlaza ... has managed find a place for itself in the taste buds of people from states like Hidalgo, Morelos, Mexico, Oaxaca, Veracruz and Tlaxcala, which this ...
| Mexico: Puebla loses 50% of hot peppers harvest due to rains
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Mexico: Puebla loses 50% of hot peppers harvest due to rains
By the end of the Chile Poblano season, 450 peasants from the community of San Rafael Tlanalapan harvest up 4,000 tons of the local chili, but due to torrential rains and the three hailstorms that have been registered in the area, only 50 percent will be picked by farmers to dehydrate, said Sixto Palomares Vargas, president of the Union of Producers.
He emphasized that July and August are the months when the peasants pick the chilis from the plots to market them in the local markets of Texmelucan and Huejotzingo. While others send them to the Puebla and Mexico plants, these are also the months where torrential rains, that sometimes include hailstorms that affect the harvests.
With respect to this year, three hailstorms were recorded in Cuautla, Ayotla, Chautla and in the town's urban area. These affected 50 percent of the plants, that is to say they are practically lost because the fruit spoiled and rotted, so that only 2 thousand tons will be collected that will serve to market it percent, which will range from 350 to 500 pesos according to the size or quality of the product.
Palomares Vargas said that fortunately the Chile Poblano National Fair that was held last weekend was successful, as they received 15 thousand visitors, 2 thousand chiles were marketed in nogada and a half ton was used to make mole poblano, as well Like 50 dishes that were made for this holiday, which will allow producers to recover part of what was lost from the spice that was damaged by the hailstorms.
He added that little by little chile poblano harvested in Tlanalapa, has managed find a place for itself in the taste buds of people from states like Hidalgo, Morelos, Mexico, Oaxaca, Veracruz and Tlaxcala, which this year have purchased several kilos for home consumption, and others to market amongst family and friends, so more plots will be necessary to supply them next year.
Source: elsoldepuebla.com.mx
Publication date: 8/31/2017
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