We are still shocked by the dimensions of the DANA tragedy that has devastated the province of Valencia. We do not even know six days after the disaster the total number of deaths. The mud, mounds of vehicles and belongings clog the streets of highly populated towns near the Valencian capital, apart from the smell of putrefaction and humidity. After the desolation come questions and citizen indignation. How is it possible that in 2024 the population could not have been notified to minimize the victims? How is it possible that if the AEMET was warning all last weekend and on Tuesday, October 29 at 7:37 a.m. it issued an alarming forecast, the emergency was not activated for citizens? This political decision would have saved many lives. Surely there will be a judicial process where politicians like Carlos Mazón, president of the Generalitat of Valencia, will be held accountable. This politician who eliminated the Valencia emergencies because he considered them a beach bar for the previous socialist president, Ximo Puig, has demonstrated a great inability to govern the destiny of Valencians. Let us remember that the PP has an obsession with emergency services, since it stated that the Military Emergency Unit (UME) was the pharaonic whim of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. But Mazón will have to give many, many explanations. And above all, answer two basic questions: why did you activate the alarm so late, at 8:12 p.m., when there were already deaths and people with serious problems due to the water? Where did you find out that DANA was moving away to the mountains of Cuenca, as stated in an appearance at 1:00 p.m. and published in a tweet that was later deleted? And there Carlos Mazón continues flaunting his inability and his sectarianism. Acting late and poorly, rejecting help from autonomies such as Andalusia, Basque or Catalan, not ceding powers. All for your chair. It is incomprehensible that he has not already resigned.
The University of Valencia did its homework and protected its workers (professors and administration and service staff) and its students. I received an email at noon on Tuesday the 29th from the organization of the International Congress: Dissident Memoirs. Gender and sexuality in the face of Francoism because on Thursday the 31st I had to close it. In that first email it was reported that at mid-morning the congress had been suspended due to wind alert 3. And then I received another email at night and more the following days. If the University had not made that crucial decision, there would surely be more victims to mourn.
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