Much fear, little hope in quake-hit village

By Sandra Dibble, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

EJIDO JOHNSON, Mexico — The birds are still chirping in their cages, and the bougainvillea blossoms are spilling from the shaded yards. But since the magnitude-7.2 earthquake that struck northern Mexico on Easter Sunday, the residents of the tiny rural community of Ejido Luis Encinas Johnson have been gone.

A mile away from their hastily abandoned houses, the community’s 65 families are sleeping beneath tarps and tents pitched in the Sonoran Desert, yearning for home but too afraid to return.

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[Posted by Carl Nash]