President Enrique Pena Nieto said Wednesday that preliminary accounting of the damage caused by the two big earthquakes that hit Mexico this month could cost upward of $2 billion (38.1 billion pesos).<\/p>\n
Pena Nieto stressed that damage assessments were continuing, especially in hard-hit Mexico City. But preliminary estimates put repairing and rebuilding schools in several states and the capital at nearly $750 million (13.6 billion pesos).<\/p>\n
Repairing and rebuilding homes will be $550 million (10 billion pesos). Damage to cultural sites could reach $440 million (8 billion pesos).<\/p>\n
The government is making direct electronic transfers to victims of a magnitude 8.1 earthquake and aftershocks in Chiapas and Oaxaca to the tune of $356 million (6.5 billion pesos) so they can begin repairing their homes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope that in the new year we will be able to have also a new Mexico, rebuilt and in normal conditions,\u201d Pena Nieto said.<\/p>\n
Authorities raised the death toll from last week\u2019s magnitude 7.1 earthquake in central Mexico to 338 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
National Civil Defense chief Luis Felipe Puente reported on Twitter that the dead included 199 in Mexico City.<\/p>\n
He said there were also 74 in Morelos state, 45 in Puebla state, 13 in the State of Mexico, six in Guerrero state and one in Oaxaca state.<\/p>\n
The Sept. 19 quake collapsed at least 38 buildings in the capital, and search efforts continued at some sites.<\/p>\n
It followed the even stronger earthquake less than two weeks earlier off the country\u2019s southern Pacific coast that especially hit Chiapas and Oaxaca. That one killed nearly 100 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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