Mexico City can’t catch a break
Horrific drug violence, the financial crisis, a deadly epidemic, and now an earthquake. You can’t really blame Mexico City residents for being in an apocalyptic frame of mind: “I’m scared,” said Sarai Luna Pajas, a 22-year-old social services worker standing outside her office building moments after it hit. “We Mexicans are not used to living ...
Horrific drug violence, the financial crisis, a deadly epidemic, and now an earthquake. You can't really blame Mexico City residents for being in an apocalyptic frame of mind:
"I'm scared," said Sarai Luna Pajas, a 22-year-old social services worker standing outside her office building moments after it hit. "We Mexicans are not used to living with so much fear, but all that is happening — the economic crisis, the illnesses and now this — it feels like the Apocalypse."
Horrific drug violence, the financial crisis, a deadly epidemic, and now an earthquake. You can’t really blame Mexico City residents for being in an apocalyptic frame of mind:
“I’m scared,” said Sarai Luna Pajas, a 22-year-old social services worker standing outside her office building moments after it hit. “We Mexicans are not used to living with so much fear, but all that is happening — the economic crisis, the illnesses and now this — it feels like the Apocalypse.”
Co-worker Harold Gutierrez, 21, said the country was taking comfort from its religious faith, but he too was gripped by the sensation that the world might be coming to an end.
“If it is, it is God’s plan,” Gutierrez said, speaking over a green mask he wore to ward off swine flu.
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Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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