Tabasco 2007: Will It be New Orleans in 2005, or Mexico City in 1985?

But given eyewitness accounts, including from one woman who heroically held her three month infant son above her head for 24 hours until she was rescued, there are many more people to be rescued than rescuers. And surely, not all of them will have had the luck or stamina of this determined mother to withstand the floodwaters. Refugees are already telling stories of people who succumbed to the waters while waiting in vain to be resued. If troops had been sent in from day one, this would not be the case. As the saying goes, too little, too late.

Moreover, the daily newspaper La Jornada published an article yesterday condemning the systematic theft of funds destined for dam maintenance and disaster prevention efforts by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) government of Tabasco during the terms of the State's past two governors, including that of infamous PRIista gangster Roberto Madrazo. And during decades of PRIista rule, the same gang of thugs failed to build any effective levee system.

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