Dozens of people from various countries gather outside the Princess Hotel in Mundo Imperial to wait for a bus that can take them out of Acapulco, a port devastated by Hurricane Otis.
The hotel is destroyed, like practically everyone else in the Diamond Zone. A mountain of debris, including compact cars that blew with the wind from the parking lot, stands in the lobby.
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Corner rooms disappeared, windows on all floors broke, balconies and walls suffered damage of varying magnitude.
Almost 40 hours have passed since winds of more than 300 kilometers per hour hit the coast of Guerrero and those attending the Convention, as well as some vacationers, are lining up to connect to a module where there is a Starlink antenna to be able to send a message. message to your family.
Among the people waiting are executives of mining companies, such as Grupo Peñoles, who stayed at the complex this week to attend the XXXV International Banking Convention.
In the same condition is its brother, the Pierre Mundo Imperial hotel, where only a handful of rooms seem intact after the passage of the meteorological phenomenon that left destruction and thousands of victims.
The scene is desolate. Mattresses on hotel hallways, door and window frames, as well as thousands of pieces of glass, in the gardens; trees and palm trees uprooted by the hurricane and thrown across roads, hallways, roofs and slopes.
A few meters away, groups of people were emptying the shelves of businesses such as Oxxo, Walmart and local stores. Acapulco became a no-man’s land.
HURRICANE HITS MINERS
27 years have passed since the last hurricane, Paulina, hit Acapulco within the framework of the International Mining Convention, but on this occasion the event did have to be canceled.
“No hurricane is going to stop us,” said the president of the National Mining Chamber (Camimex), José Jaime Gutiérrez, at the opening of the event on Tuesday night. Two hours later, Otis contradicted him.
The inauguration took place in the absence of Governor Evelyn Salgado, who focused on addressing the emergency that was about to occur without evacuating the Imperial World complex.
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The roof of the forum, where the inauguration took place, collapsed, the expo where the stands and heavy equipment were waiting for 10 thousand attendees was flooded. Without an official statement, the Mining Convention had been cancelled.
However, the director of the College of Mining Engineers, Metallurgists and Geologists of Mexico, Luis Humberto Vázquez, declared a few hours later that the biannual event will be held again in Acapulco, a city that, he said, needs them more than ever.
2023-10-27 01:34:47
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