Disaster in Acapulco must be a call for prevention in Michoacán: Antonio Plaza

Morelia, Michoacán.- The unfortunate disaster that our brothers and sisters in Acapulco are experiencing in the neighboring state of Guerrero, should become a call to Michoacán to act in terms of prevention because without a disaster fund or an updated risk atlas we can suffer the same tragedy on our coasts.
This was expressed by the State President of Michoacán Primero, Antonio Plaza Urbina, when he expressed his solidarity with the people of Acapulco affected by Hurricane “Otis” and emphasized that they would find themselves in a much less serious and more hopeful situation if the Federal Government had not disappeared the Natural Disaster Fund (Fonden).
“Today neither in Mexico nor in Michoacán do we have an emergency fund to use in times like this, because the Fonden was disappeared by Morena and they replaced it with nothing. For this reason, Governor Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla and the Federation are obliged to take precautions and create an alternative if they do not want the images that we now see in Acapulco to be repeated in our state,” the leader emphasized.
Emphasizing that the Michoacán coasts are in a more vulnerable situation because they do not have the same tourist support as Acapulco, he also pointed out that the economic disaster would be devastating in the mercantilist nucleus that is today Lázaro Cárdenas.
In addition, only 22 municipalities in Michoacán have their Risk Atlas updated and in shape, which means that practically 80 percent of our territory is in a technical vacuum, lacking information on the dangers faced by its population and what measures to take to prevent them.
Plaza Urbina concluded by stressing that natural disasters are inevitable but governments, and especially those aligned with the destruction of the Fonden, have the responsibility to take the absolutely necessary technical and economic precautions if we do not want to repeat history in Michoacán.

Original source in Spanish