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Stranded Spain MP describes Katrina chaos

Lourdes Muñoz Santamaria, her husband and his 10-year-old son were on vacation in New Orleans and were unable to get a flight out of the city before Hurricane Katrina struck.

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According to Boix, Muñoz said dead bodies were inside the center and others were outside, with no one removing them.

Muñoz also told Boix there was no water at the center, and that when a few evacuation buses pulled up to the center Wednesday, there was a scramble to get aboard and only the strongest made it, because no authorities were on hand to direct a more-orderly evacuation.

Later, Muñoz described the situation to CNN partner station CNN+ in Madrid.

"It's everyone for himself. The police and army pass by the center, but here no one is organizing anything," she said.

"There's no food or water, the people are becoming dehydrated.

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Muñoz said she has been in frequent contact with the Spanish Embassy in Washington but that U.S. authorities are not permitting embassy personnel to enter New Orleans.

Muñoz, 35, is an MP from Barcelona for Spain's Socialist Party.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Sep 1st, 2005 at 02:21:57 PM EST
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This just drives me crazy to hear this. What the heck is going on??

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
by whataboutbob on Thu Sep 1st, 2005 at 02:50:11 PM EST
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It gets even worse if this is true. Is this government made of feelingless zombies or what? Must have happened today.

BREAKING: Sec of State Condi Rice caught buying several-thousand-dollar pair of shoes in NYC moments ago, spends last night at Broadway show!

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Sep 1st, 2005 at 03:03:38 PM EST
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Are you joking?  After 9-11 our President told us all to go shopping.

Welcome to our universe...

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Thu Sep 1st, 2005 at 03:13:51 PM EST
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