Calderon visits Mexico quake sites

Published: 7 April 2010 y., Wednesday

One day after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake rattled the Mexico-California border area, Mexico‘s President visits one of the affected areas. Felipe Calderon toured a hospital in northern Mexico that was damaged by the earthquake, and promised government support to those displaced by the tremor.

 

Šaltinis: Reuters
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