Posted on 07/29/2017 5:41:00 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
When a car carrying a father and son plunged into a giant sinkhole that opened on a highway in central Mexico, it caused Mexicans to shudder, not just at the men's agonizing deaths, but at the corruption, shoddy work and dubious government contracts it exposed...
The government quickly removed the banners and fired a few low-ranking officials, while the federal highway department rushed to blame heavy rainfall, not shoddy construction, for the tragedy last week in which the men slowly asphyxiated at the bottom of the sinkhole over the span of an hour and a half...
Just two weeks before the highway collapsed, a low-level Cuernavaca official, Mario Meneses, hand-delivered a letter to the transportation department. "I am telling you that the wall you built in this area is about to collapse," it said...
They won the contract by submitting the lowest bid, but ended up going way over budget, more than doubling the cost of the project by the time it was finished in March...
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
No help arrived in over 90 minutes?
Mejor a la manana.
Maybe they were sending messages via the Free Republic server?
There have been some serious lag times lately.
Mexico is a corrupt, lawless narco state
BUILD THE WALL NOW
And the leftists want to bring that here
Not exclusive to third world countries..........sadly.
>>The government quickly removed the banners <<
What banners????????? Who writes these things?
From a helpful preceding paragraph:
The highway connecting Mexico City and the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco had only recently been redone and was still festooned with inaugural banners proclaiming “Thank you, Mr. President!” for the project.
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