![]() ![]() ![]() The burned remains of Grenfell Tower in London. “We’d just evacuated for the drill,” people said, like a collective mantra. Buildings once again collapsed, leaving a rising-by-the-hour death toll that eventually reached 361, as well as swarms of bewildered citizens wandering the streets, frantically attempting to reach their loved ones through the weakened cell phone reception. Then, in one of those odd occurrences in which reality proves to be stranger than fiction, a sudden jolt scarcely two hours after the drill led to what would be yet another of the deadliest earthquakes in the city’s history. You wouldn’t think it looking at Mexico City today-a densely populated metropolis, where empty space is hard to come by-but decades earlier, following a devastating earthquake on September 19, 1985, more than 400 buildings collapsed, leaving a collection of open wounds spread over the cityscape.Įxactly thirty-two years later, the anniversary of that disaster was ominously commemorated with an emergency evacuation drill. This article was originally published by Common Edge as " Letter From Mexico City: An Insidious Memorial to a Still-Unfolding Tragedy." The proposed memorial to earthquake victims in Mexico City met with fierce resistance from residents who felt authorities had not done enough for the people left homeless by the tragedy. ![]()
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