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Governor Triveño: Reconstruction of Ica, Peru to take another 10 years

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Israel J. Ruiz

Rebuilding the areas affected by the magnitude-8 earthquake that struck Peru last year will take another 10 years if Peru's government continues working at the same pace, said Rómulo Triveño, the governor of Ica.

Triveño told reporters from El Comercio daily that only between 10 and 15 percent of the work needed to be done had been completed.

He urged the Garcia administration to speed up the reconstruction of houses, schools and hospitals because "people are getting tired of waiting".

The governor explained that earthquake victims felt NGOs and private companies were working faster than the government.

He supported, but did not take part in a protest on Friday in which over 2,500 of the region's people marched through the streets demanding that the government provide them with the help they needed.

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# Peter says :
15 August, 2008 [ 23:42 ]

G'day all. This is a very sad state of affairs...maybe if some diligent journos continued with regular coverage and progress reports in principal newspapers &/or TV, the world at large could continue asking questions of the current Government....it is simply not enough to "fly flags at half mast" in sympathy.
Maybe Alan can direct some of the Chiffa FTA money(IF it happens) into constructing Ica & Nasca & Pisco upwards, instead of just mining downwards ??!!
The S.6000 per person hand-out is not really the long-term answer(only a short term "shot-in-the-arm" for basic survival)...and, besides, rumour has it that that money was indeed not from the Government, but from overseas aid agencies....but it appears the credit (for the money)was otherwise claimed....I am not keen on slander, so I will not say anymore.
I sent money from Australia, just in case I cop some smart comments from the gallery !! :)

Just thinking,
Peter

# Anonymous Dave says :
16 August, 2008 [ 01:32 ]

The people who are suffering are poor... so why would the government care? Send in the riot police if they get a little out of control.

Sad.

# jb says :
16 August, 2008 [ 10:16 ]

Meanwhile, the government just spent $150 million to repair some obsolete jets.

# Martin says :
16 August, 2008 [ 12:10 ]

Labelling last year's 7.9 earthquake a "natural disaster" is right on target. It is simply the result of the release of energy stored within the earth as the Nasca Plate descents beneath the South American Plate.
Peru will have many more earthqukes of various magnitudes. The 'problem' in Peru and other earthquake prone countries is that the population is ever increasing and living in areas where the soil is unstable and subject to movement during these seismic events. Buildings that are not constructed to withstand these events simply are an invitation to building collapse and possible/probable loss of life. 

# Chaufa says :
16 August, 2008 [ 18:12 ]

Martin is right, the poor are breeding too much. We need to put a break on things while it will still have an effect. What are people doing with 8 children?
What we need is a brilliant mind...

# Peter says :
16 August, 2008 [ 21:34 ]

Allillanchu todos, Good to see some focused comments, but at the end of the day, these poor people still need a lot more help and construction engineering expertise that can construct more earthquake resistant structures.....that needs money, so my original comments still stand....particulary about news coverage from the journos...that traditionally gets more reaction than just people complaining, eh ?
I wish that the APUS  be with them.
Viracocha

# Roberto says :
16 August, 2008 [ 22:16 ]

With 28 years construction experience as a general contractor I can truly say that there is money skimming going on and the whole re-building process is being handled by a bunch of amatures that do not know what they are doing. Our company offered a solution that would have fast tracked the re-build but Peru's Government decided to dump off a bunch of concrete blocks and hope the people can figure out what to do with them. Much like FEMA in the States everyone that can steal the re-build money will do so. Oh by the way..... was it not Forsur's members that were stealing the money and putting it in off shore accounts. What a bunch of crooks. I would bet that is going on right now, but with a different bunch of crooks,

# Splaktar says :
17 August, 2008 [ 22:21 ]

Yep, the sad thing is that so much money is being stolen AND many of the houses that are being rebuilt will just fall down again in the next earthquake.  The people are not building them to the legal codes.  Most of the buildings that collapsed were adobe buildings that were not built by code.  You can go down the streets and see solid buildings still standing while 10 adobe buildings around them are all flat/gone.

There just aren't enough skilled construction workers who build things legally in Peru.  It is all about saving/skimming money and building things as cheaply as possible.

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