Mexico, Hit by Its Own Disasters, Can’t Help Texas After All<br />After Mexico’s strongest earthquake in living memory struck on Thursday night, killing 96 people<br />and devastating parts of Oaxaca and Chiapas States, and Hurricane Katia swept ashore early Saturday, causing mudslides and flooding, the foreign ministry said all help was needed at home.<br />Mexico, which sent brigades to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, first offered to send help to<br />Texas on Aug. 27, when Mr. Videgaray spoke to Mr. Abbott by telephone, the foreign ministry said.<br />On Monday night, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson picked up the phone — four days after the earthquake — to offer condolences<br />and assistance to Mexico’s foreign minister, Luis Videgaray.<br />3:00pm ET: While Trump Administration has YET to express solidarity w/Mexico for quake, Canada did it early on & in 3 languages @cafreeland pic.twitter.com/b96LeQpWtI The announcement by Mexico<br />that it was withdrawing its offer to help Texas must have caught someone’s attention in Washington.<br />That was the gist of a message that Mexico’s foreign relations ministry sent on Monday in announcing<br />that it had no choice but to withdraw the help it had offered to Texas to deal with the flooding left by Hurricane Harvey.<br />In its note on Monday, the Mexican foreign ministry thanked Mr. Abbott for his words of solidarity after the earthquake<br />and offered its support for Florida, which is reeling from the effects of Hurricane Irma.<br />k them," the ministry said. that deeply hopes that very soon, the state of Florida, as well as the states of Texas<br />and Louisiana, manage to recover from the damage caused by the hurricanes that have struc
