As Mexico Earthquake Aid Mounts, Many Fear It Will Be Diverted

09/11/2017 New York Times

Brett Gundlock for The New York Times

JUCHITÁN DE ZARAGOZA, Mexico — Concepción Rueda Gomes has been collecting food and supplies since Mexico’s strongest earthquake in living memory struck her hometown, Juchitán, last week. But when it came time to distributing the aid she turned to private agencies for help.

“There was no way I was going to give away the help we raised to some local official or leader so he can just hand them out to his friends and family,” Ms. Rueda, 50, a jewelry designer, said at her home in Juchitán, where volunteers were loading up three trucks with food, water and blankets.

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