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Mexicano Rojo

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« on: Sunday, October 9, 2005, 22:58:26 »

http://www.stevemacaulayphotography.com/Lake-Atilan-dock.jpg

this is santiago atilan, when i lived in mexico i use to go on holiday here, i went here 5 times, its an incredible place, possibly the most beautiful place i have ever been to in the world.

the people of the village were the poorest people i have ever come across, 30 years of a brutal and stupidly violent civil war ended only recently and clean water had only arrived at the village 2 months before i arrived there. however the people were the funniest and most generous i have ever come across, treating you with respect and giving you hospitality unrivalled to anywhere else i have travelled to. it also had the greatest dope dealer in senor miguel sanhueza, a super hero of a bloke who insisted you smiled as you bought the weed, of which was the most potent i have ever ever known.

a tropical storm on tuesday night set in motion a series of mudslides.
santiago atilan and the majority of its inhabitants no longer exists. piles of bodies are being stacked up on the dock of that lake in the picture. i really really hope miguel is not among them.....
so if you hear or see an appeal please give as generously as you would to the terrible earthquale in pakistan, central america does not really have a good PR, how many of you actually knew this had happened? see what i mean.
sorry to go on just feel shitty about the whole thing.
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« Reply #1 on: Sunday, October 9, 2005, 23:09:53 »

Looks horrific on the reports and I’d have never been none the wiser I must admit.

If I see any appeals I’ll chuck some cash their way.

No mention of any appeal on Tinternet though.
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« Reply #2 on: Monday, October 10, 2005, 00:50:06 »

Rightly said, Mex. Heard the reports from Guatemala over the weekend and it's just horrific how people's lives can just be washed away like that. And as you say will get overshadowed by the earthquake in Kashmir so that people in C America will get little or no attention and so little or no help. Oh, and a big fuck off to 5 live who pushed both stories off their lead headline tonight to report on some poxy fire on Southend Pier. I mean, hell's teeth!
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« Reply #3 on: Monday, October 10, 2005, 08:03:17 »

The BBC are fastly going down in my opinion. Their website stories are nothing more than hear say at best and the level of reporting poor.  Their television channels are mediocre.  Makes me wonder where all of our license fees are going.
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« Reply #4 on: Monday, October 10, 2005, 14:22:57 »

paying the top executives loads of cash i think Jan. i agree the BBC is shit! what have they given us on their TV channels recently apart from Extras?
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« Reply #5 on: Monday, October 10, 2005, 14:33:46 »

yeah and the guy from Khan's in Rodbourne. Recently they had someone attack them with a hammer... now this.




A SWINDON shopkeeper has spoken of the horror he is going through after losing eight of his family in the earthquake in Pakistan. So far the 7.6 magnitude quake which struck Pakistan-controlled Kashmir on Saturday has killed up to 30,000 people, the vast majority of them in Pakistani territory.

But India has also reported several hundred deaths and Afghanistan has said one girl was killed.

Grandfather Azim Khan, 65, owner of Khan's Convenience Store in Rodbourne Road, was devastated when he turned on the television to see his hometown Battal destroyed.

And yesterday he received the call he had been dreading to say that eight of his relatives were dead and another, a 16-year-old boy, is still trapped inside his collapsed school.

Mr Khan, who moved from Battal to Swindon in 1967, said: "I'm completely devastated.

"When we looked at the aerial picture of the area on Pakistani TV everything was flat.

"There is no building left. The police station, the school, the shops ­ everything is completely flat.

"I have been watching the news and every single thing is destroyed. The town has gone."

The members of Mr Khan's family who have lost their lives are the grandchildren of his brother and sister and all of them are aged between one and 16.

He said: "My sister had to walk 15 or 20 miles to get to a phone to tell me. She said that the number dead so far is eight.

"The school has collapsed and one of my grand-nephews is still trapped.

"So far they have got 70 bodies out but the rest are still trapped and they can't get to them now because there has been a landslide."

Mr Khan had recently been on holiday to his birthplace and he says it is impossible to reconcile the images in the media with the place he saw.

"I went back last year and it was nice," he said. "There was a new shopping and tourist centre and I saw all my family.

"Now there is nothing left. It's all completely wiped out."

The rescue operation has swung in to action with China and Japan dispatching emergency teams of rescuers and relief officials while Australia has pledged cash toward recovery efforts.

Mr Khan says he will do everything he can to help the remaining family he has in the disaster area.

"The best thing I can do is collect as much money as possible to send through Muslim Aid," he said.

"I am devastated but our family has lost everything and we must do what we can for them."

To find out more about the charity Muslim Aid visit the website at www.muslimaid.org


http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/wiltshire/swindon/news/SWINDON_NEWS0.html
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