Mexico, Hit by Its Own Disasters, Can’t Help Texas After All
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Mexico, Hit by Its Own Disasters, Can’t Help Texas After All
After Mexico’s strongest earthquake in living memory struck on Thursday night, killing 96 people
and devastating parts of Oaxaca and Chiapas States, and Hurricane Katia swept ashore early Saturday, causing mudslides and flooding, the foreign ministry said all help was needed at home.
Mexico, which sent brigades to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, first offered to send help to
Texas on Aug. 27, when Mr. Videgaray spoke to Mr. Abbott by telephone, the foreign ministry said.
On Monday night, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson picked up the phone — four days after the earthquake — to offer condolences
and assistance to Mexico’s foreign minister, Luis Videgaray.
3:00pm ET: While Trump Administration has YET to express solidarity w/Mexico for quake, Canada did it early on & in 3 languages @cafreeland pic.twitter.com/b96LeQpWtI The announcement by Mexico
that it was withdrawing its offer to help Texas must have caught someone’s attention in Washington.
That was the gist of a message that Mexico’s foreign relations ministry sent on Monday in announcing
that it had no choice but to withdraw the help it had offered to Texas to deal with the flooding left by Hurricane Harvey.
In its note on Monday, the Mexican foreign ministry thanked Mr. Abbott for his words of solidarity after the earthquake
and offered its support for Florida, which is reeling from the effects of Hurricane Irma.
k them," the ministry said. that deeply hopes that very soon, the state of Florida, as well as the states of Texas
and Louisiana, manage to recover from the damage caused by the hurricanes that have struc
After Mexico’s strongest earthquake in living memory struck on Thursday night, killing 96 people
and devastating parts of Oaxaca and Chiapas States, and Hurricane Katia swept ashore early Saturday, causing mudslides and flooding, the foreign ministry said all help was needed at home.
Mexico, which sent brigades to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, first offered to send help to
Texas on Aug. 27, when Mr. Videgaray spoke to Mr. Abbott by telephone, the foreign ministry said.
On Monday night, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson picked up the phone — four days after the earthquake — to offer condolences
and assistance to Mexico’s foreign minister, Luis Videgaray.
3:00pm ET: While Trump Administration has YET to express solidarity w/Mexico for quake, Canada did it early on & in 3 languages @cafreeland pic.twitter.com/b96LeQpWtI The announcement by Mexico
that it was withdrawing its offer to help Texas must have caught someone’s attention in Washington.
That was the gist of a message that Mexico’s foreign relations ministry sent on Monday in announcing
that it had no choice but to withdraw the help it had offered to Texas to deal with the flooding left by Hurricane Harvey.
In its note on Monday, the Mexican foreign ministry thanked Mr. Abbott for his words of solidarity after the earthquake
and offered its support for Florida, which is reeling from the effects of Hurricane Irma.
k them," the ministry said. that deeply hopes that very soon, the state of Florida, as well as the states of Texas
and Louisiana, manage to recover from the damage caused by the hurricanes that have struc