Thank-you notes can be addressed to:
His Excellency Carlos de Icaza
Ambassaor of Mexico
1911 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20006"Dear Ambassador de Icaza" or "Dear Mr. Ambassador"
Mexico's contributions to Katrina relief include (but are not limited to) the following:
- An Army convoy carrying relief supplies and almost 200 personnel arrived in San Antonio, Texas, on September 9. The supplies it brought include 2 mobile kitchens, each capable of feeding up to 21,000 people a day; mobile water treatment plants; and 15 trailers of drinking water.
- A Mexican Navy ship carrying approximately 75 Marines and half a dozen doctors and nurses is in Biloxi, where its personnel are helping the crew of the USS Bataan with recovery and relief operations in southern Mississippi.
Also see:
"Mexican Troops Arrive for Katrina Relief," by Abe Levy - The Washington Post, September 9, 2005
"Mexican, Dutch Marines Arrive to Help," by George Pawlaczyk - the Sun Herald (Biloxi), September 10, 2005 (also carried by Knight Ridder)
"Work of Mexican Marines May Score Political Points," by Edwin Garcia (in Biloxi, Miss.) - Knight Ridder, 15 Sept 2005
The Mexican marines who landed on the Mississippi coast as part of an unprecedented hurricane relief effort brought 300 specialized troops eager to rescue victims, administer medical treatment and even help locals recover the dead.
Instead, the camouflage-clothed marines, wearing blue vests with the word "MARINA" printed in white letters across their chests, spent most of their five days here handing out water bottles, clearing up debris from a school and moving supply boxes.
Their voyage to the Gulf Coast nonetheless could score much-needed political points for Mexican President Vicente Fox, who's spent years trying to get the attention of President Bush and Congress in his persistent push for immigration laws favorable to Mexicans in the United States....
But politics was furthest from the minds of the marines, who worked side by side with the U.S. Navy before departing for home.
At Biloxi's First Baptist Church, which is doubling as a massive Red Cross relief center, two physicians sorted boxes of prescription medicine, a radio specialist helped load boxes onto pushcarts, and several marines distributed plastic water bottles to motorists in a drive-through lane formed by boxes of supplies....
Marine Lamberto Escobar, who worked the aftermath of the Asian tsunami, gripped the wheelchair of 75-year-old Betty Price, waiting in a shady area to push her to her car.
"This time the job has been easy," Escobar said. "But on other occasions we've had a very difficult assignment, digging for bodies and transporting the injured...."
I frankly hope that not repeat disaster from previous hurricanes.
http://www.viewheadlines.com/News/Article.aspx?i=17939&t=Tropical-storm-plus-oil-slick-equals-more-fear-and-uncertainty
Posted by: Maria | June 26, 2010 at 05:52 PM