One year ago Wednesday, a major earthquake killed hundreds of people in Mexico City. The same day in 1985, another earthquake claimed more than 10,000 lives.
Here & Now‘s Lisa Mullins learns more about how the recovery is going from KJZZ’s Mexico City bureau chief Rodrigo Cervantes (@RODCERVANTES).
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Rescue workers in Mexico City remove an injured woman from the Hotel Principiado in the city's downtown section after Thursday's earthquake, Sept. 19, 1985. (AP Photo/Chip Young)
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Rescue workers evacuate one of those injured in the Hotel Principiado in downtown Mexico City on Thursday, Sept. 19, 1985, after an earthquake struck earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Chip Young)
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Rescue workers and volunteers search for survivors on a collapsed building the Del Valle neighborhood in Mexico City, Tuesday Sept. 19, 2017. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake has stunned central Mexico, killing more than 100 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
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