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Monday 9 November 2015
Official: Missing Argentina:
in Brazil disaster Sprawling Buenos Aires province key to election
unlikely found P. PRENGAMAN with bars on the windows. demographers, to under- with the consulting firm Di-
A. CALATRAVA “Every day there is more stand what happened last agnostico Politico. “Some
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Associated Press crime, and we need more month. go beyond Scioli’s control,
The 28 people missing CIUDADELA, Argentina police.” For months, polls predicted but not all.”
since the failure of two (AP) — Yanina Mendoza Macri’s surprisingly strong Scioli would win the elec- The list of gripes is long:
dams at an iron ore mine doesn’t seem a natural first-round finish was based tion by 10 points or more. crumbling schools, dilapi-
flooded a village in south- voter for opposition leader dated public hospitals and
eastern Brazil are unlikely Mauricio Macri, a member Pedro Aguilera takes her mother Maria to the doctor in periodic flooding, such
to be found alive, the of one of Argentina’s rich- Buenos Aires, Argentina. Aguilera says he will vote opposition as in August, when heavy
governor of the affected est families who is running candidate Mauricio Macri on Nov. 22 presidential runoff rains forced tens of thou-
state said Sunday. for president on pro-mar- election against ruling party candidate Daniel Scioli. sands to evacuate their
Speaking at a news con- ket credentials. homes.
ference, Minas Gerais The 24-year-old single (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) But the most pressing issue,
Gov. Fernando Pimentel mother makes about often the first thing people
said it was still not known $1,200 a month as a maid largely on his robust show- But instead, he garnered mention on the streets, is
what triggered Thursday’s and lives in a rough area of ing in Buenos Aires prov- 37 percent, barely ahead crime. Just how bad things
failure of dams at the Sa- Ciudadela, a city about 12 ince, whose 15 million resi- of Macri at 34 percent. The are is anybody’s guess be-
marco mine, which sent miles (20 kilometers) west dents make up 40 percent biggest surprise was in this cause the Ministry of Jus-
viscous red mud, water of Buenos Aires. Since the of the country’s population province: Scioli got 3.5 mil- tice stopped publishing
and debris flooding into country’s return to democ- and is larger geographi- lion votes while Macri got national crime statistics in
the hamlet of Bento Ro- racy in 1983, her Tres de cally than Italy or the U.S. 3.1 million, a shocking result 2009.
drigues, flattening all but Febrero neighborhood has state of Arizona. The prov- that analysts can only in- The feel in neighborhoods
a handful of buildings. traditionally backed lead- ince includes coastline, terpret with the old adage like Tres de Febrero ex-
The mud tide has contin- ers from within Peronism, a farmland and a seemingly that “all politics are local.” plains a lot. Heavily armed
ued to spread, causing working class movement endless sprawl of densely Scioli is finishing his sec- gendarmes wearing bullet-
flooding in other nearby founded by three-time populated urban centers ond term as governor of proof vests guard dozens
towns, pouring into an President Juan Peron. around the city of Buenos the province while Macri is of checkpoints. Businesses,
area river and threatening That changed Oct. 25, Aires, which is part of the doing the same as mayor and many of the mod-
the water supply of sever- when millions like Men- province. of the city of Buenos Ai- est cement-block homes,
al cities in the neighboring doza in the vast Buenos Whoever wins the prov- res, giving voters firsthand have barred windows. Sto-
state of Espirito Santo. Aires province shook up ince will likely be the South experience by which to ries abound about break-
“One lost human life the political landscape by American nation’s next judge them. ins, armed heists and kid-
would be irreparable — voting for Macri and forc- president, a reality that has “There are many prob- nappings.
imagine 28,” Pimentel was ing a Nov. 22 runoff against prompted a mad scramble lems in the province that “I look out on the street
quoted as saying by the Daniel Scioli, the govern- by the candidates, along haven’t been solved,” said and see people getting
Rio de Janeiro newspaper ing party candidate. Scioli with political observers and Roberto Chiti, an analyst robbed every day,” said
O Globo. “It’s a disaster, a has been governor of the Guillermo Gamarra, who
tragedy of great dimen- province for eight years owns a corner store whose
sion.” and is the chosen succes- front is lined with metal
One person has been sor of outgoing President bars. Gamarra said he was
confirmed dead, and 15 Cristina Fernandez, the leaning toward Macri after
village residents and 13 current standard-bearer of voting last month for Sergio
mine workers are listed as Peronism. Massa, a former ruling par-
missing, the governor and “I hope Macri can be a ty loyalist who broke ranks
the state fire department real change,” Mendoza to form his own movement.
said Sunday. said, emerging with her Many residents here travel
The number of missing has 1-year-old daughter from each day to work in the
been in flux in recent days, an apartment building city of Buenos Aires.q
with local officials saying
pockets of survivors might Quake hits mountainous Venezuela area; 1 dead
still be holed up in isolat-
ed areas. Authorities said CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) a car. (9 miles). Two strong after- occurred along the high-
Saturday that 19 people — An earthquake with a The U.S. Geological Survey shocks of 4.8 and 4.9 and way linking the cities of El
were missing, a few hours preliminary magnitude of says the quake hit at 2:28 many lesser shakes have Vigia and Merida. He says
after reporting 23 people 5.3 struck a mountainous a.m. Saturday and was been felt in the area. one of the slides dropped
unaccounted for. area of Venezuela’s west- centered 5 kilometers (3 State civil protection di- rocks on a car, killing one
Helicopter searches for ern Merida state. Authori- miles) south-southeast of rector Gerardo Rojas told of the five people inside.
survivors resumed Sunday ties say one person was the town of Lagunillas at the state AVN news agen- The other four had minor
morning despite rainy killed when a rockslide hit a depth of 14 kilometers cy that several landslides injuries.q
conditions that have ham-
pered rescue efforts.q
