His audience also wept openly. I feel better now. Hernandez of the Mayor's Office said, although foreign governments, most notably Mexico, arrived within two days to help with the rescue efforts at Las Colinas, Salvadoran aid did not come for 12 days. The way we have always lived is to survive from one thing to the next. The rainy season.
Volcanoes dot the landscape, their sides striped with cracks the earthquakes caused.
The cracks exposed loose earth like that which buried Las Colinas. The difference is this earth hasn't fallen, yet. The great fear is that torrential rains that will come over the next eight months will turn that earth into rivers of mud flowing over communities at the bases of volcanoes. Here again, officials with the municipal governments and relief agencies say, the national government is acting irresponsibly. Hernandez said the government promised to send engineers to determine how to stabilize the site at Las Colinas, or if that's even possible.