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Seriously?!

Okay, I know I never use my tumblr unless I'm extremely bored and I rarely publish anything, but seriously I'm pissed right now. Yesterday, just as the day was coming to an end the earthquake alarm went off. Now, if you live in a place were you are in potencial natural disaster ,(earthquakes, tsunamis, tornados, you know, the kind of shit you can't see coming) you know how frightening it is to hear it. As some of you may know, México is one of the countrys that has faced some of the most disastrous earthquakes in the world, and with that precendent I soppouse is easy to guess that everytime we hear that damn alarm go of we think we are going to die. I live currently in México city to study, but I'm from a state in the south called Oaxaca, and that is one of the poorest places in the entire contry and though it has a couple of great schools, I came here to study architecture in the best university of the country. Of course, Mexico city was place of one of the most tragic earthquakes in recent decades in 1985, that left the city in ruins and there were more than 12,000 deceased. And obviously after that, we leave in constant fear of relieving a tragedy of that magnitude.

Also as an architect student, most of my teacher were students or teachers when this happened, and after this they got kind of traumatized, and they live and work with complete compromise to avoid something like that happening againg, because, at the end of the day all those building were made by architects. Now, that being said it's quite obvious that they are constantly showing us the consecuences of not being responsable with your projects. And just this thursday, we are getting closer to the eve of the eathquake of 1985 so my structures teavcher gave us a clase about earthquakes and this obviously came with tons of pictures, videos and stories about that awful day. As I was getting back home on the subway that day I kept thinking about how horrible it would be to have an earthquake while on the subway and under earth, so I was still quite shaken up about my class. So imagine how frightened I was to hear the alarm yesterday just as I was about to hop in the shower (because I ususally shower at night). Now, after I began to study architecture I have to admit I've gotten better at reacting to the alarm ( because when I was still in high school I was always one of the few persons to get a panic attack each eartquake), and since earthquakes are farly common I reacted quite well. At this point I still thought it was going to be a normal earthquake of no more than 6.5 on the richter scale, since we have at least five of those a year, and our city now it's built to hold things way stronger than that. So I was the first one down and I opened the doors to the building. At this point I still wasn't sure if it was a real thing, but as people started to come down that shit went stronger, we started to hear small explosions, the lights went out, the light poles and the trees looked like they were about to fall and it just didn't seemed to be stopping. I took cover near a car and I remember the only thing I had in my mind was "God, not like the 85 again please, don't let it be like the 85 again". And after it stopped I waited 30 minutes and went to check my building for any noticeable structural damage, there was none. And as I started getting updated, it seemed like everything was fine in Mexico city, so we all visibly relaxed.

But I still had one concern, I couldn’t contact all of my friends and family from Oaxaca. After a while I finally contacted all my family, and it seemed than other from losing communication, everything was fine. Obviously at this point I was lot calmer, but I couldn’t really sleep. Near three am news started to come out about how bad things were in Oaxaca, my friend informed me that her house collapsed and everything seemed to be destroyed in a little town called Juchitán. All the footage seemed so dramatic and I couldn’t help but cry. That was my family, and they had Tsunami alert but every single person there was doing everything they could to get the people from under the ruins, and there wasn’t help there and they still had to work as fast as they could before the possible Tsunami striked.

Now, I know the huracanes Irma, Katia and Jose are about to strike in the US, but at least they got a warning, yet it seems like it’s the only thing people is talking about. Everybody is praying for Florida, everybody is worried about the US citizens. every artist is publishing about it, everybody is donating, even México send help there. 

Don’t get me wrong, when in tragedy we all should help the others, but at the end of the day the United States is one of the richest country in the world and of course they should get help but, truth be told, we are way more fucked.

Now the real reason about why am I so mad is because everything everyone is talking about is the United States. Every single news article, in every tumbr post, avery fucking tweet from people other than latin americans its about the hurricane hitting the United States.

But nobody is saying anything about how the hurricanes left Barbuda ‘barely habitable’ with 95% of its building structures destroyed by Irma.

Nobody cares about the hurricane also hitting México or LIDIA in Cabo

Maybe I’m just exaggerating because it’s hitting closer home because I guess it just that it’s were i come from and I’m so far away. But it does makes me mad that we don’t seem to be getting the media attention that we should be getting and it looks like the only people talking about this are latinos. I suppose they only care about us when Trump is talking shit about us or we have interesting food to offer.

I just wish people really cared about us.