Hurricane Otis devastates Acapulco, leaving the city's poorest residents feeling abandoned and forgotten by the government.
Estela Sandoval Diaz was huddled in her tiny concrete bathroom, sure these were the final moments of her life, when Hurricane Otis ripped off her tin roof.
“The government doesn’t even know we exist,” Sandoval said. “They’ve only ever taken care of the resort areas, the pretty places of Acapulco. They’ve always forgotten us.” Three years ago, Sandoval beamed with pride when, after 25 years of saving, she put a foot of concrete on the floor and a new metal roof on her house so it wouldn’t flood every time it rained. But that seemed a lifetime away Friday as Sandoval and her children picked through their soggy remains.
On Saturday, Lopez Obrador blasted critics of his hurricane response, saying journalists and the political opposition had exaggerated the casualties. With sparse food, water and gasoline, and no cellphone service, Sandoval and her family could do little more than scavenge for supplies in bare supermarkets. Avid supporters of Lopez Obrador, they crossed their fingers the president would follow through on his promise.
Fisherman Eleazar Garcia Ramirez, 52, was still wrapping his mind around the devastation as he tinkered inside a boat with a cracked mast on the beach surrounded by the remains of boats and broken trees.
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