We are already recovering

Rafael Caro Quintero would be actor star of 1985, Member of a family of sinaloan traffickers, arrived to produce 50 million tons of marijuana that left you so many millions of dollars.

Education in Mexico was in crisis, teachers salaries were a disgrace and the Union, the SNTE, the largest in Latin America, was completely charro, as well as its chieftain Carlos Jonguitud Barrios.

However, the Madrid was saying that the country was already recovering and everything was going well.

Came the elections. He had admitted the PMT (Mexican workers party) and reinstated the authentic of the Mexican Revolution (PARM). As usual, the PRI was by full truck, thus already had prepared everything so it so happened.

On 19 September 1985, at 7:19 in the morning, Mexico lived the eternity of the moment when the most devastating earthquake in the country's history took place. The intensity was of 7.8 points on the Richter scale.

There were 3,500 dead, fell 250 buildings, 50 on the verge of collapse, numerous public schools were damaged, stations of metro, centres for entertainment and culture, shops, restaurants, apartment buildings and neighborhoods.

El President De la Madrid, toured the most devastated areas and declared: "we are prepared to meet this situation and do not need to resort to external assistance. We appreciate the good intentions but we are self sufficient."

An extraordinary, unexpected and timely sense of solidarity was among many inhabitants of the city of Mexico.

The President finally accepted humanitarian aid from abroad, but not always came to whom needed it, if not left it is the vultures of the bureaucracy.