A South Texas border community has been devastated—first by the coronavirus pandemic, then by Hurricane Hanna
RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas—Delia Perez could barely stomach stepping inside the destroyed shell of her home last month.
Her mother was the first Covid-19 fatality in a county that would soon see among the virus’s highest per-capita death rates in the state. Then, as the virus raged across South Texas, , reducing to rubble the mobile home where Mrs. Perez and her husband, Gracian Perez, had lived for 37 years and raised two children, destroying nearly all their belongings with water and blasted fiberglass.Mr. and Mrs. Perez aren’t alone in experiencing multiple crises that have affected lower-income and Latino populations harder than the country as a whole.
Those deaths came as the region took an economic blow from the closing of the U.S.-Mexico border, an increase in existing poverty and hunger as schools closed, and a physical beating from the storm. Starr County, a sprawl of ranches and towns upriver from the more populous areas of McAllen and Brownsville, is 99% Hispanic and among just 1% of U.S. counties with a poverty rate higher than 35%.
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