![]() ![]() ![]() “They were all over the building on the columns, and walls. Please help to review the building on account of its cracks from the recent earthquake.’ Maria del Rosario Acosta Olivares sent four tweets without response. Translation of the second tweet: ‘ Enrique Rebsamen 241 in the Narvarte colony of Benito Juarez. After a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in May 2014, Acosta Olivares noticed numerous cracks had emerged in the concrete of her building. In the Narvarte neighbourhood, for example, Maria del Rosario Acosta Olivares began renting at 241 Rebsamen, a five-storey apartment building, in August 2013. “Facing pressure from citizens, the government will sometimes say that they are going to sanction the developers. “I have not seen a single sanction,” says Josefina MacGregor of Suma Urbana, a group of neighbourhood associations in Mexico City. More than 44 buildings were destroyed in the earthquake, and another 3,000 were evacuated, but residents and advocacy organisations say the city government did not heed the vast majority of complaints. In 2016 alone, Mexico City residents lodged 1,271 complaints about violations of zoning or land use ordinances with the Environmental and Zoning Prosecutor’s Office (Procuraduría Ambiental y del Ordenamiento Territorial, PAOT), the city watchdog for environmental and building compliance. Many of the buildings in question subsequently collapsed in the 19 September earthquake, which was notable for the high number of new or recently remodelled buildings that suffered surprising damage.
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