Tabasco Tragedy Also One of Mexico’s Finest Moments

When nature unleashes its massive forces against the frailness of human weaknesses, you generally get disaster. No nation or any other human association can protect itself enduringly against the ravages caused by earthquakes, hurricanes, forest fires or flooding.

Although in some exceptional cases man’s ingenuity and technological progress allow for safeguards that lead to brief periods of harmony with the natural world, human arrogance often forgets that nature is a jealous and resentful companion. Humanity forgets but nature always remembers and the results are always catastrophic.

The bluntness of this disharmony was felt in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco. Villahermosa, Tabasco’s capital, was flooded by colossal thunderstorms that delivered the largest rainfall recorded in the last 100 years. The rains were a remembrance of nature’s rage, and the ensuing Katrina-like calamity was a testimonial to man’s pigheadedness – but what followed was a monument to man’s solidarity in times of trouble.”*

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