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postguiltypleasures · 5 years ago

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JANE THE VIRGIN Finale Articles Links Round Up

Jane the Virgin, a show I never missed and affected my emotions on surprising ways wrapped up last week. It did well by plots that I feel like I’ve only ever seen done badly. The finale was pretty perfect in that it highlight what was special about the show and giving us the viewers a loving goodbye. I don’t know where the show will ultimately fit in with the direction in which television is moving, it kind of feels like an end of something and the beginning of something. Going through these fair wells might be a first step.

I’m actually starting with a couple of articles that really weren’t about the show’s finale. The first is technically a review of Emily Nussbaum’s I Like to Watch, as she has been a great champion of the show, as well as generally insisting that the what is considered “serious” vs “frivolous” be reconsidered. This response to Nussbaum’s book starts in particular about her essay “Jane the Virgin isn’t a Guilty Pleasure”. Nussbaum’s essay does a great job at praising what the show does well as connecting it to earlier television shows. (Interestingly she doesn’t associate Jane with camp the way she did with Ugly Betty, nor does she list that as one of Jane’s predecessors despite the fact that both are US primetime networks adapting Latin American telenovelas. I’ll get more into why I think that is interesting and probably for the best later.) The article about her book does more to talk about how it’s been frequently overlooked for shows that seem created for men. In a lot of her book tour Nussbaum has spoken about how the way Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Sopranos were discussed around the time that they debuted drove her into tv criticism. If I were to pick something to be The Sopranos to Jane’s Buffy I’d probably go with Breaking Bad, as it had a notoriously difficult time getting its fans to care about/not hate Walt’s home life. Walt’s home life was about the slow consequences of his drug dealing and gangster activity. There was always a fair amount of gangster activity on Jane, but from watching Breaking Bad could leave you with the impression that there’s no way to make caring for an infant as exciting as the chaos of organized crime. Jane proved that isn’t true.

Also before the finale, The Ringer published this article that is sort of half praise/ half interview with the creator. It gets into the ways it played with the crime drama story types but never really treated it like that’s what it was about. It also gets into the writer’s room, and I was happy to learn that some people there have worked on telenovela’s in the past. It also has some quote’s from Jaime Camil who plays Jane’s father Rogelio de la Vega, which I thought were an interesting contrast to an interview he gave earlier in the show’s run. The Ringer article misleadingly identifies Camil as having starred in the “Spanish language version of Ugly Betty.” There were three Spanish language versions of Ugly Betty, or rather there were three Spanish language versions of the Colombian telenovela Yo Soy Betty La Fea which was the source material for Ugly Betty. Camil starred it the Mexican one, La Fea Más Bella, which debuted around the same time as Ugly Betty. (Fun fact, between LFMB and the later Por Ella Soy Eva, Camil has twice starred in Mexican remakes of Colombian telenovela’s in roles originated by Jorge Enrique Abello) I was at one point obsessed with the whole constant remaking of YSBLF phenomena and Ugly Betty in particular. It was taking on one of the most popular IPs of all time and had to do it in a very different format than the original. (Producing one episode a week for an indefinite number of years is very different than five episodes a week for approximately a year. For starters, there’s going to be a much smaller ensemble.) I never watched the original Venezuelan telenovela Juana la Virgen. It wasn’t remade internationally with anything like the regularity as Betty, and ultimately that may have been in the American show’s favor. Part of me wants to say that Jane learned from some things Betty tried but didn’t necessarily execute so well. And another part of me thinks that not having the burden of massive international popularity allowed them to jettison some of the things that made it a harder to adapt for a different audience. In the original YSBLF, Betty’s family life and work life have this great tension where some of her more questionable decisions (specifically, choosing to help her boss commit fraud to the board of the company) are partially based in some disillusioning parts of her home life (namely, her father loosing his job due to the boss selling the company and never paying out his pension). Ugly Betty never played those two aspects of Betty’s life against her like that. In some ways it was much better to the character. (American Betty had professional ambition in a way that the original didn’t.) But in this not knowing how to connect her family and professional lives, it often felt like it was struggling to make the family life stories matter. Jane the Virgin never had this problem. Partially because it was much more interested in emotional reactions than plot twists, but also, because it didn’t need to follow an original’s example of making the work place drama the engine of the show. Between the different relationships they had with their source materials and how they mined the work/life balances of their character’s they were different shows, from different times. Too much comparison is just counterproductive.

Kathryn VanArendonk wrote beautifully about how the fantastical elements of the story made the more mundane plots like finding a good school for Mateo, and balancing child care and a burgeoning writing career, really work. VanArendonk doesn’t focus on how badly many other shows do on making the housekeeping side of life interesting. The fact that as a tv watcher you’ve been through so many examples of shows that feel like the drag or are just aimless when it comes to the personal life side of the work life divide does contribute towards the sort of miraculous feeling Jane sometimes created, but it’s probably for the best not to focus on the negative examples.

I also want to highlight this great personal essay about how the show dealt with both being an adult and having anxiety around sex, mostly because of cultural baggage. The show didn’t so much reject the things that we associate with the baggage (ie no one abandoned the Church. (Also not discussed was the fact that all three of the Villanueva women had anxiety about sex at some point in their stories, but as Xiomara’s was more about the aftermath of cancer and chemotherapy than culture created anxiety, so it doesn’t fit with Mariya Karimjee’s larger theme. Just bringing it up to say, I liked how Xiomara’s post-cancer story worked out.)

A final one from Vulture about the reveal that the narrator is the adult version of Jane’s son Mateo. I’m highlighting it because the Mateo has ADHD plot was one of the most moving stories the show did during the final season. ADHD is so misunderstood and there were so many ways that this could have gotten a too pat, wrong message of an ending. I’m glad voice over actor Anthony Mendez talks about how even as an adult it’s something with which he struggles.

I cheered for Petra for most of the series. However, due to things in my real life, I currently have a pretty low tolerance for stories about bad bosses. Petra’s worst quality was she was a terrible boss, mercurial and abusive. Inkoo Kang’s tribute to the character is good, and gets at why I’ve been interested in her, and her relationship with Jane, for so long. Despite finding Petra less likable in the final seasons than in earlier ones when she was more villainous, one of my favorite moments of hers did come this season. At one point she says that her “worst nightmare” is turning into her mother. It could have been just a throwaway one, but then the narrator tells us it’s true and shows us what it looks like, and it manages to be hilarious, heartbreaking a you get why this would be Petra’s worst nightmare.

(The Toast once dedicated a “Femslash Friday” to the Jane and Petra dynamic. Here’s the link if interested.)

After the finale aired Slate also published an article about how the Michael is not dead plot didn’t work and was a disservice to the way love works. I mostly agree. I never really cared with whom Jane ended up. The show was always more about figuring out haw to build and maintain relationships than proving who was more right for each other. And I did kind of like the “each in their own time” resolution to the love triangle. (I felt similarly to the one in Lost Girl.) I get why the show did it. I do agree it was why the final season dragged in some parts. I do think Michael coming back from the dead reinvigorated the Sin Rostro story just in time to climax on the penultimate episode. Whether or not that was worth it is up to you.

I do want to take this moment to point out that while watching Jane walk down the aisle in the final episode, I realized that there never really wasn’t a moment in the entire where I felt doubt that Jane was loved, or felt unlovable. The closest it ever got to that’s in its depictions of how growing up without a father affected her. But, as connecting with her biological father Rogelio and developing a very deep bond was such an important part of the show, that anxiety was never really felt for Jane. (Petra, on the other hand…) This makes her kind of an outlier of most of the series I watch, whether the was the point of the series (You’re the Worst, Crazy Ex Girlfriend) or kind of a side affect of the surreal and chaotic universe in which it’s set (Broad City, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt). I’m not sure what to make of this. Is it part of why it would be more likely to be misidentified as a guilty pleasure? Is it a sign about changes in what makes a heroine “relatable”?

I’ve repeatedly said here that I’m thinking about tapering the amount of tv I watch until it’s none. In Margaret Lyons’s review, she talks about how Jane was in some ways the show that replaced Mad Men in her heart, which reminded me that when Jane started I wasn’t sure I wanted to start any new tv shows. Also both show’s care about episode structure in a way that feels undervalued these days. I do kind of have to agree with Lyons that some of the final season felt like treading water. (Something that seemed to affect the more character than plot driven shows I’ve watched that have ended this year. This runs counter to most of my theory of what’s going on with tv these days.)

“Have you ever loved something so deeply it was almost impossible to talk about?” Jade Budowski wrote over at The Decider. And yes, for a while now, the things I like the most are the things I have the hardest time trying o talk about. It’s satisfying enough that you kind of want to just point and say “go, experience it for yourself.” Even though that runs the risk of letting it be taken as froth.

Over at Vox, Constance Grady wrote about how the finale worked, despite the fact that most of the conflict was resolved on the previous episode. It’s a loving tribute to how the show knew how to work and give us the happiest of endings without being too saccharine.

Finally, I want to day thanks for making Jane and Rafael’s wedding song Ximena Sariñana’s “Todo En Mi Vida”. Sure, I’ve been following Sariñana since her debut, Mediocre, so this is likely to appeal to me personally, but it’s also a beautiful song about learning to love the unexpected and build a new life around it.

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tamtam-go92 · 6 years ago

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Pleasantview +25 years recap

Pleasantview +25 years is my attempt at joining all my favorite families through out the franchise in one save. I've spent about four days in creating over 45 families that populate all of the worlds I have in The Sims 4. And when I say I created them, I actually mean I downloaded them from the gallery. =//) I'm not particularly good at creating Sims... Willow Creek are only Pleasantview Sims, Oasis Springs are mostly Strangetown Sims, Newcrest are mostly rich Sims from all the games, San Myshuno is everyone I didn't know where to locate them, mostly single Sims, and Banacle Bay are the creative and LGBT Sims. I also really need to thank @homijoh for sharing her rule set with us some time ago. I loved it and I'm using it for this rotational game play. For more information (I warn you, A LOT of Information since I tell a thing or two about every family) look behind the cut!

Willow Creek:

Broke I Household: Brandi, Beau and Skip Junior – Brandi never remarried and did an okay job at raising three boys on her own.

Broke II Household: Dustin, Angela, Susan, Mitch, Melinda, Brad – Dustin had got Angela pregnant as a teen and from that day on, their relationship went downhill. Why they are still together? Probably because of their four children.

Burb Household: John, Jennifer, Michael – Michael is the recreation of a son the Burbs had once in my game. Never forgot him =)

Dreamer Household: Dirk, Lilith, Hugo, Irmi – Hugo and Irmi are twins and their parent's whole proud.

Dreamer-Goth Household: Darren, Cassandra, Manuel, Daniela, Dorothee – After a bad divorce from Don Lothario, Cassandra found true love in Darren Dreamer and they had two girls. Darren took her son with Don in, like his own flesh.

Goth Household: Alexander, Lucy, Agatha – Alex and Lucy are too buzy with their career to care for their only daughter Agatha.

Goth-Caliente Household: Dina, Nina, Simon, Enrique – Dina inherited Goth Manor from her decreased husband Mortimer and took her sister and nephew in.

Langerak-Pleasant Household: Daniel, Kaylynn, Trina, Zelda – After leaving Mary-Sue for the Maid, Daniel wouldn't have thought to ever hear teenage girls fight again, yet here he is!

Lothario Household: Don, Bianca – Don was a d*ck to women and here he is, estranged from his two sons. After an abduction by aliens and the birth of his daughter Bianca Don suddenly saw clear regarding his sexuality.

Oldie Household: Mary-Sue is divorced and moved back in with her parents. Since 25 years she's bickering with her elderly mother.

Oasis Springs:

Beaker Household: Loki, Circe, Atom, Ceres – With his clone children Loki could save Circe from a pregnancy and yet have his perfect family!

Curious Household: Pascal, Vidcund, Lazlo, Crystal, Tycho, Techna, Erik, Marie – Crystal has no idea how she managed to live with her brothers in law and their strange kids for over 20 years.

Grunt Household: Ripp, Buck, Jill, Ralf – People say the older sibling should be responsible for the younger siblings. Tell that Ripp Grunt...

Landgraab Household: Nancy, Geoffrey, Malcolm – Just the normal Sims 4 Landgraab family.

Loner Household: Ajay, Erin, Vincent, Linus – Ajay married Erin Beaker and had two boys with her.

Roomies Household: Zoe, Mitchel, J, Gavin – Just the normal Sims 4 Roomies household.

Smith Household: Johnny, Ophelia, Sally, Ginny, Ben, Dora – The only problem of this family is, which of the girls should share their room with their baby sister.

Zugovich Household: A family introduced in the Sims pet stories. Just a little gag to add some fresh blood.

Newcrest:

Alto Household: Holly II, Don, Trenton – My interpretation is, that the Holly Alto from DS is the daughter of the Holly Alto from The Sims 3. Trenton is a Sim from Lunar Lakes.

Capp Household: Juliette, Romeo, Cleo, Linea – Juliette married her big love, she had her happy ending with her Romeo.

Jacquet Household: Gilbert, Florence, Sébastian – I never really shipped those two, but I wanted to include both.

Summerdream Household: Bottom, Hal, Fiona – Hal and Bottom usually end up together in my game and make a decent couple.

Worthington Household: Frances J- III, Joyce, Frances J. IV – Frances has his trophy wife and a beautiful daughter to keep the name alive.

San Myshuno:

Bunch Household: Mary – Mary is a descendant of the Sunset Valley Bunches.

Elson Household: Craig II – Craig is named after his great-grandfather from Starlight Shores.

Fair-weather Friends Household: Keiko, Mateo, Anthony, Holly – Just the household form the gallery.

Gieke Household: Chester, Testee – Chester lives a life in retreat with his alien daughter.

Inkbeard Household: Opal, Jane – Opal is a descendant of the Barnacle Bay Inkbeard family and Jane is her wife.

Karaoke Legends Household: Miko, Darling, Akira – Just the normal Karaoke Legends Household from The Sims 4.

Newon Household: Garrett – Garrett Newson looked for a life in solitude after growing up in a crowded place.

Pancakes Household: Bob, Eliza, Igga – The Sims 4 Pancakes family with their gallery son Iggy just moved to San Myshuno.

Patel Household: Ramir, Ana, Louis, Maya, Mali, Kirian – The Patels form Belladonna Cove with their four children. They aren't related with Zoe Patel from Oasis Springs.

Sekemoto Household: Cecila, Len – Cecilia is the grand-daughter of Sam Sekemoto. I created her a long time ago in the Sims 2 and there she became Alexander Goth's wife (his wife in the DS version is called Cecilia. But now she's only the mother of Len Sekemoto, a Sim from Lunar Lakes.

Sims Household: John – Your average white guy next door and son of the tutorial Sims.

Tricou Household: Orion – Always a loner Orion lives in an almost empty penthouse.

Vatore Household: Caleb, Lilith – The Vatore family from Forgotten Hollow. I don't have Vampires, so they are just some ordinary Gothics.

Xio Household: Tian – He's from Shang Simala and just recently moved to San Myshuno.

Yuan Household: Kien – After a successful career as a k-pop icon, Kien retired in San Myshuno.

Brindleton Bay:

Climate Household: Arthur, Janine, Summer, Nicolas – Just the normal Climate family from the gallery.

Delgato Household: Supriya, Justin, Pierce, Evie – Just the normal Sims 4 Delgato family.

GilsCarbo Household: Goopy, Alice, Celeste – Everybody's favorite townie with his Sims 3 family.

Hecking Household: Just the ordinary Sims 4 Hecking family.

Lynx Household: Just the ordinary Sims 4 Lynx family.

Monty Household: Mercutio, Tybalt – After their hate turned into love, those two ran away together and now own a huge mansion in Brindleton Bay.

Ottomas Household: David – After growing up with much to many siblings, all David wanted to be was alone.

Una Household: Natasha, Joana – Nobody ever knew who Joana's father was. It's totally wasn't obvious!

I haven’t played much until now, only about 36 hours with the Broke I household. I suspect it to be a bit buggy with SO many sims (it’s already 147) but I hope my PC can handle it. I’m really excited to play this!

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drbobbimorse · 8 years ago

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Finally finished Velvet, so here’s my thoughts on the final season. I loved it, as I love all the seasons, but it did have its flaws.

First of all, nearly every storyline felt rushed! Like, the storylines were well within what I expect from Velvet but the pacing was so off. I attribute that to the shortened episode count. If we’d had our normal count, I think a lot of storylines would’ve played out a lot more smoothly. A normal episode count of 14-15 dropped to 11 might not seem like much but, with the amount of storylines each character gets and the length of each episode, those extra 3-4 episodes would’ve been a huge help.

I also really hate how they dropped the ball with Patricia. The one thing I was most excited about for s4 was the budding relationship between her and Ana due to Ana’s pregnancy. Patricia wanted to make amends and be there for her and the baby and she’d told Ana as much, but they never interacted once in the final season nor did Patricia appear to have any sort of relationship with her nephew! All Patricia got was her normal troubles entangled with Enrique and that was so beyond disappointing.

Also wasn’t a fan of the romantic vibe they pushed between Blanca and Emilio by way of comments from new one-off characters. It just felt weird and completely out of nowhere, like they were trying to give everyone a happy ending no matter how out of character or forced it was. To go with the ‘not a fan’ vibe: Cristina. I liked Cristina in s1, cause she was a genuinely good person – spoiled, naive, and desperately clingy but good – but, after that, everything just went down hill. The final season started with her appearing to be well and actually wanting to make amends and then she suddenly flips the Crazy Switch like two episodes in. Then it ends with her looking like a straight up Bond villain. I mean, I don’t care about Cristina as a character but it was the last season! I really think they could’ve done better than this for her.

Btw did we ever get a clear explanation on what happened with Clara and Mateo? They were married for a year and then nothing! They tried to talk about it but Clara talks in circles and other plots got in the way. That's irritating, minor thing.

Most of all, more than anything else, I really hate that they had Rita’s cancer come back at the very end! I get it, in real life, cancer can come back but, sometimes (like in the many cases of my own family), it doesn’t! What was the fucking point of having her relapse?! I honestly thought Rita was gonna turn out to be pregnant again but the strange/sad looks between her and Pedro weren’t indicative of that and then they drop the bomb. Its the last season, and the writers knew that, so instead of ending with Rita being in remission they have her relapse! Now I’m thinking she’s gonna fucking die! Writers, this is not a good note to end on! Especially not for Rita! The woman doesn’t deserve it!

#galerias velvet

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forthelostlittle · 7 years ago

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Here's The Real Story Of What's Happened After Mexico's Earthquakes

SAN MATEO DEL MAR, Mexico - After Mexico suffered two massive earthquakes in September, killing 471 people and causing millions of dollars in damages, the narrative that emerged - and was pushed hard by the government - was that the disasters had brought the country together.

Yes, groups around the country collected donations and drove hundreds of miles to deliver them to Juchitan, the most affected city after the first earthquake struck with the full force of its 8.2 magnitude on September 8th. Less than two weeks later, volunteers in Mexico City - the area most affected by the September 19th quake, which struck at 7.1 on the Richter scale- came out in such extraordinary numbers that many were told to stay off the streets.

The quakes spawned a new sense of patriotism - messages of unity and pride, such as #FuerzaMexico and When I'm older I want to be Mexican," were tacked onto walls, phone booths, and lamp posts around the hip Mexico City neighborhood of Condesa. It was a respite after years of corruption scandals, soaring homicide rates, and a limping economy had battered the nation's morale.

Today's Mexico is so much stronger, with greater social conscience, with a greater sense of community - which can sometimes be lost, said President Enrique Pea Nieto during an event at the national palace earlier this month. Frida, a rescue dog who became the mascot of the recovery efforts, sat in the front row, nodding off.

But that's only part of the story.

Nearly 500 miles from Mexico City, and far from the media spotlight, sit two towns on a peninsula in the country's Pacific coast. Santa Mara del Mar and San Mateo del Mar have hated each other for decades. Now, the earthquake is making it worse.

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No one is quite sure how the hatred started.

The residents of both San Mateo and Santa Mara belong to an indigenous group called the Ikoots.

People in San Mateo accuse their neighbors at the tip of the peninsula of feeling superior because they renounced those indigenous roots when they became evangelical Christians; Santa Mara residents in turn say tragedies that have befallen San Mateo are a result of its residents' godlessness.

The strain was aggravated eight years ago when San Mateo claimed 1,300 hectares of land that Santa Mara said belonged to it. While the case made its way through federal courts, San Mateo blocked the road that connected Santa Mara to the rest of the mainland with a length of chain. It forced Santa Mara to acquire a handful of speed boats to ferry its 1,500 residents back and forth across a lagoon to the mainland.

In January, during the height of the high winds that batter the lagoon, one of these boats capsized, killing three passengers. The bodies were delivered back to Santa Mara, prompting officials to ask their counterparts in San Mateo to allow a shipment of coffins through the blockade. Their request was denied.

Amado Jose Ramos (right), and Nicandro Perez watch as another boat arrives from Santa Mara

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Then came the earthquakes.

The first one, on September 7th, affected both communities greatly. Four people were killed and 150 were hurt in San Mateo, a town of about 6,000 people; while there were no fatalities in Santa Mara, more than half of the 300 houses were damaged or destroyed. It seemed as good a time as ever to call a truce.

For a moment, there was a glimmer of hope. Oaxaca's governor, Alejandro Murat, was allowed to drive through to meet with residents of Santa Mara. San Mateo began lifting the rusty chain to let a handful of trucks filled with aid get across.

But that's where the good will ended and the sparring resumed. Soon, people in Santa Mara started saying that guards manning the border between the two towns had been forcing drivers transporting post-earthquake aid to hand them half of the contents in exchange for access. Authorities in San Mateo say they've told their neighbors that the border is open but it's they who don't want to drive across.

San Mateo is a traitorous town, said Julian Bartolo, a patrolman from Santa Mara.

"Their hearts are hard," Genoveva Montero, a woman from San Mateo who lost her home, said of people from Santa Mara.

Photographed from the San Mateo del Mar side of the border, a small chain blocks the border between San Mateo and Santa Mara

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A small boulder with the Spanish word for border etched into it sits near the chain separating the two towns. Fortino Gijn, a guard manning the last outpost before the chain, told BuzzFeed News access was strictly forbidden.

Down the road past the chain, is a 12-foot-long bridge that was recently damaged. Residents in Santa Mara, at the peninsula's tip, say their neighbors smashed a hole in it on purpose to stop aid from getting through.

Residents of the two towns are warning aid workers and journalists not to visit the other or risk getting shot. Within these and other communities, people are lining up multiple times for donations, even at the expense of their neighbors' needs. And across the region, officials are being accused of hoarding food and cots meant for victims.

Government aid, including water, medicine and gasoline, has been arriving in Santa Mara by helicopter, but the community is worried that will soon end. When it does, the town will have to contend with a water source contaminated after the earthquake - skin infections have been spreading among the population.

Naila Martinez Jimenezand her daughter Helen, at their home in Santa Mara del Mar. Helen's legs have developed a rash as a result of dirty water according to the town's one doctor.

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Earlier this month, Juchitn, the biggest city in the region, gave Santa Mara a brand new patrol car, the only working one they've had for months, according to Matas Gonzlez, the town's top official. Certain that the conflict is beyond fixing, Gonzlez ordered two of the community's speed boats to be tied together and crisscrossed with sturdy wood planks so that the car could be ferried from the northern side of the lagoon to the town.

Tensions haven't just grown between towns since the earthquake but also within communities. Roselia Gutirrez, a local leader in San Mateo, said that residents of the smaller districts along the road leading up to the main town, have been stopping trucks loaded with aid and forcing drivers to unload boxes and bags and turn around.

"There are people that don't need as much as others but they want to get as much as their neighbors. It's part of the human condition," said Beatriz Gutirrez, director of the San Mateo pre-school and Roselia's sister. The sisters, like many leaders across the region, have themselves been accused of hoarding food for themselves and their friends.

Families, too, have fractured after the earthquake. Ofelia Durn, a 42-year-old housecleaner from San Mateo, says her aunt has snatched handouts from her hands, moved into the only room left standing in her father's house, and has hired lawyers to try to defend her claim to the property.

Durn and her parents, aged 74 and 84, are sleeping on the street while the issue gets resolved.

Clockwise from top left: A police officer from Santa Mara del Mar examines a hole in a bridge, supposedly put there by San Mateo del Mar; Isabel Quintanar, and her daughter Ofelia Duran in front of the property where their house once stood in San Mateo del Mar; Genoveva Montero sifts through the rubble of her home by hand in San Mateo del Mar as a neighbor looks on; The home of Valentn Fajardo is demolished by an excavator in San Mateo del Mar.

Meghan Dhaliwal for BuzzFeed News

The tremors also exacerbated political rivalries. Juchitn Mayor Gloria Snchez says she has been entirely sidelined by Murat and federal authorities, who belong to the rival Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, during the disaster's aftermath. She says she's been the last one to find out every time they've visited Juchitan.

Snchez's husband was recently filmed losing his temper as a mob of people outside his house demanded tarps. "Fucking priista!" he yelled at one of them, using the word for supporters of the PRI.

"That was a provocation, people there were prepared to film everything," Snchez who has been accused of prioritizing aid for her supporters, told BuzzFeed News. She said the disaster has fueled gender-based discrimination against her.

Back in San Mateo, an excavator smashed through the roof of a house that was badly damaged during the earthquake. A group of neighbors stood nearby, quietly taking videos and photographs.

This had to happen, said Valentn Fajardo, the owner of the house, as he watched from a distance, the deafening sound of concrete breaking filling the air.

Across the peninsula, in Santa Mara, piles of rubble from four houses that had recently been tore down dotted the town.

Because they couldn't get excavators transported across the border with San Mateo, people had been left to demolish them by hand.

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