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They have not been developed early alert programs neither monitoring systems
Mexico with geographical situation confront risks by cyclones
By: Carlos Damián December 04, 2010
The drought: the figure of 24 billion
México. – It is considered a Mexican territory in risk of 800 thousand square kilometers that by its same geographical situation confront risks by cyclones. So only the step of Karl by Veracruz caused damages to jungles and swamps that they could be delayed a decade in be restored, said Emilio Flores, attached director of the Forest National Commission (Conafor). The tropical forests are weaker than those of coniferous and the greater problem is the restoration of the swamps, because "is an ecosystem very rich that requires multi-year of a natural process of the own swamp to be recovered". Explained Flores.

In the country exists a civil protection system and mechanisms as the National Fund for Natural Disasters to confront emergencies, "but the scientific knowledge has not achieved be installed in such process so that are developed programs or monitoring systems and alert before El Niño, the droughts, the flooding, knowing our that an early alert system hurricanes constitutes one of the pillars of the National System of civil protection yet", indicate the expert Victor Magaña, Cuauhtemoc Lion and Lilian Guige, in the analysis "The adjustment to the climatic change: of who or for who? Seven arguments for a handbook, included in the study Mexico face the climatic change, edited by Greenpeace.

They consider that it should be to abandon the naturalist paradigm of the disaster, reducing the vulnerability by means of better climatic information. "The topic of the adjustment as plan of vulnerability reduction of the society to the changes in the climate requires of a capacities development in various areas between other the scientist and technical". Also they indicate that the adjustment to the climatic change requires a new type of dialogue between scientific and decision power men, and that implies "the development of new institutions and relationships between academy and government, between academy and society".

Natural disasters
In September 19 they are commemorated 25 years of the earthquakes that jolted to the heartland and that caused a great human and material devastation in the Mexico City. In addition to the authorities corruption that were made of the blind man for a moment before flagrant violations to the construction and industry textiles bylaw that over exploiting and were mistreating to their worker, by not to speak of the corpses in boxes that they were found, of fortuitous way, in the headquarters of the capital office of the prosecutor. Before the official paralysis, the capital population was capsized to the streets and was organized in spontaneous form to recapture to the survivors, to attend the injured and damaged and to bury to the dead; that civic reaction foreshadowed a perpetuated political transformation in the Federal District.
From this perspective, to speak of "natural disasters" is to appeal to a euphemism to hide incompetence, improvidences, acts of corruption and histories of ambition and excessive profit and irresponsible, and to present the consequences as unavoidable. But they aren’t.: the disasters are caused, rather, by a social order that puts to the poorest inhabitants above of geological defects and of undermined lands, on the natural current immediacies, on the skirts of the hills or on the cyclones route, and that permits unable constructions to resisting the onslaughts of the atmospherics phenomena and usual geological movements of the blue planet.

The quake of 1985
Makes 25 years, 19 of September of 1985. A strong quake jolted the country capital, but also to the south of Jalisco. The Guzman City was converted in a stage of the tragedy and the destruction, many persons lost their houses and properties; and believed them that they would be victims of the chaos and the poverty. When a quake or a flooding happen in a site where the poverty is the common denominator and the inequality is a structural characteristic of a community, it is there where a natural phenomenon, strips and shows the lack that had from before of the destructive event. If are not assaulted the roots of the problem, the population is in imminent risk.

The origin of the problem are not the in itself same destructive natural events, they are the social precariousness condition those which increase exponentially the vulnerability of a population. Not only we try to reconstructing what was destroyed, but we may have in clear that we should work to eradicate the poverty and the exclusion of the society. The disaster that more it damage makes to a society is the social disaster, not the natural, and we add the corruption, the impunity and the voracity of the capital are converted into catalysts of the natural disasters upon sponsoring greater risks to the society, v. gr., the water accumulation in preys that then they are not duly handled by acts of corruption in the CFE, or the housings construction in latent danger areas: as in gullies, in rivers and creek borders.
While the Mexicans we learn from our natural disasters and we reflect on the past events, we build alternative of future for all the inhabitants of Mexico. We let of entertaining us in banalities as the world beauty event and we devote our effort and intelligence to the reconstruction process that without doubt can help us much for the construction of a Mexico most just. (La Jornada, Sociedad y Justicia, p.p. 18- 42, 14 de Octubre, 2010).