Peru in Ruins 6 Months
after Quake
Six months after a
deadly quake devastated
part of the Peruvian
south, scarcity and
complaints by those
affected continue, with
the government-promised
reconstruction showing
no significant advances.
Authorities and social
leaders from Ica region,
the most affected,
denounced that dozens of
thousands of residents
are still living in
camps, tents, or
improvised shelters.
Meanwhile, the occupants
of such precarious
shelters deplored the
lack of water and
subsequent insalubrity,
with the propagation of
insects and rats.
Ica's governor Romulo
Triveno said that only a
few hundred of the
houses have been built,
but by private
initiative, because the
promised governmental
reconstruction has shown
no result at all.
Triveno ratified his
criticism of the Fund
for Reconstruction of
the South, created by
the government after the
quake for a rapid
recovery of the affected
zone.
For many people, the
situation in the cities
of Chincha, Ica, and
Pisco has the same image
of the days after the
quake, with rubble still
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