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Verified humanitarian updates across CENTRAL AMERICA, with maps and attributed sources.
HondurasGOAL teams in Honduras are responding to support communities who have seen their livelihoods devastated in the remote La Moskitia region after Hurricane Eta ripped through the region. The storm caused catastrophic landslides and flooding in Central America with Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala the worst affected regions with scores dead and more than…
NicaraguaFAIRFIELD, Conn. (November 16, 2020) – Hundreds of thousands of children in Nicaragua and Honduras may be in the path of Hurricane Iota just two weeks after Hurricane Eta battered the same region, impacting over two million people and leaving children without food, shelter and an education, Save the Children warns. Hurricane Iota is scheduled to make…
NicaraguaOn the afternoon of Sunday, November 15, 2020, the National Institute of Seismology, Volcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology -INSIVUMEH of the Government of Guatemala, has reported that IOTA has been strengthened to Category two Hurricane. IOTA has reached wind speeds of up to 150 kilometers per hour, which give it category 2 on the Saffir Simpson scale,…
HondurasPanama/Geneva, 10 November 2020 – The national, regional, and global resources of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) are being mobilized as the full, destructive picture of Eta begins to emerge across Central America. According to Red Cross assessments, more than 2.5 million people from Panama to Belize have been…
El SalvadorOn October 29, the Environmental Observatory reported a very high probability (80% -100%) of the occurrence of landslides and debris flows in Cerro El Picacho, Boquerón and neighboring municipalities (north of Santa Tecla, San Salvador, Mejicanos and Nejapa). At approximately 11:00 p.m., a large-scale landslide occurred from Cerro El Picacho with an…
El SalvadorAccording to the United States’ National Hurricane Center (NHC), Eta is on track to make landfall over Nicaragua’s northeastern shores near their border with Honduras on late 2 November or early 3 November as a Category 1 or 2 storm, bringing sustained winds of 150 km/h and high rainfall of up to 635mm to much of Nicaragua and Honduras. Eta’s projected…
MexicoJesús Martínez “Palillo” stadium: MEXICO CITY – As 68-year-old Antonio* and his young nephew walked home from work in Honduras, members of a street gang cornered them and demanded an extortion tax. Unable to pay, they shot and killed Antonio’s nephew in front of him. Gathering up a few belongings, Antonio joined refugees and migrants making their way on…
MexicoA defunct nightclub in the south of the city now hosts the thousands of migrants who arrived in the two caravans from Central America.A collections of tents fills the courtyard inside El Barretal. Thousands of Central American migrants live on the pavement on the patio inside the unused nightclub in Tijuana, Mexico. Two competing explanations exist for…
BelizeNana made landfall in Belize early 3 September as a Category 1 hurricane after passing near Honduras’ northern coasts and the Bay Islands department, bringing heavy rains and 60mph wind speeds before weakening to a Tropical Storm over northern Guatemala. While authorities in Honduras, Belize and Guatemala continue to evaluate Nana’s impact in their…