by matttbastard
More on Mexico’s Katrina from The Unapologetic Mexican and Brownfemipower, who provides her usual extensive round up of coverage, also noting the quirks of US print media outlets (phear teh disease!)
Related: American Red Cross information page, including donation link
Update 11.05: More from the CS Monitor, which also provides a partial list of (US-based) organizations accepting donations to assist victims of flooding in Tabasco:
Red Cross: Call 800-HELP-NOWor 800-257-7575 (Spanish). www.redcross.org
Catholic Relief Services: 877-HELP-CRS or www.crs.org
UNICEF: 800-4-UNICEF or www.unicefusa.org
World Vision: 888-56-CHILD or www.worldvision.org
Operation USA: 800-678-7255 or www.opusa.org
Commercial banks with relief-fund accounts set up by the Mexican government:
Scotiabank
Account 00100911240
HSBC bank
Account 4000943274
Wells Fargo bank
Account 599253401
Bancomer bank
Account name: Ayuda Tabasco 2007.
Account number: 2280300127
Update 2: Al Jazeera English – Mexicans take flood rescue into their own hands:
Update 3 11.06: $500,000. US. That’s like, what, a half hour in Iraq?
bastard.logic 