Hurricane Mitch was considered a rare event, but that is no longer the case with Eta and Iota. Iota flooded stretches of Honduras still underwater from Hurricane Eta, after it … Honduras is expected to make a similar request for those not covered. Fuels a Crisis for Farmers in Mexico. The Honduran population has been greatly affected by the devastating effects of Hurricane Eta, and will continue to see its repercussions. Seventeen people in Panama died and two dozen are missing. But now, in the wake of Eta, some residents will need to be relocated within the Ngäbe-Buglé comarca, the most populous Indigenous jurisdiction in Panama and one of the country’s most impoverished regions. Emergency Response to Hurricane Eta in Honduras. A man walks through a flooded road in Okonwas, Nicaragua, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. A child floats on an inner tube in a flooded street in the aftermath of Hurricane Eta, in Planeta, Honduras… Who would hold party elites accountable to the values they proclaim to have? Most residents in already flooded areas needed little persuasion to evacuate before Iota hit. Indigenous territories were already under siege from violence, extractive industry and energy projects, tourism development, cattle ranching, and monoculture export crop plantations. As Americans turn to fentanyl, poppy growers in Mexico turn to migrant work and organized crime. Consider what the world of media would look like without The Intercept. Millions of people have been affected. Many whose lives have been upended by the recent hurricanes are already considering migrating, including some who’ve begun organising caravans via social media. There are Garifuna communities in Guatemala, Belize, and Nicaragua, but after Honduras, the largest Garifuna population resides in New York City. By the Associated Press | November 6, 2020 SHARE. The kind of reporting we do is essential to democracy, but it is not easy, cheap, or profitable. Four homes on the collective land title were completely destroyed by the Gamma River, which was created by a tropical storm 15 years ago when a river affected by oil palm plantations overflowed and branched off, running through Triunfo de la Cruz on its way to the Caribbean. In the Ngäbe-Buglé village of Boca de Remedio, a landslide buried a family of six. Some predominantly Maya towns and communities in Guatemala remain partially or even fully submerged. Photo: Seth Sidney Berry/SOPA/LightRocket/Getty Images. Mental health crises are likely to become more acute and the coronavirus will remain a threat, as will a potential epidemic of dengue, chikungunya, or Zika, he said. Many of the people missing are buried under landslides. People remain in a temporary shelter after their homes were flooded due to the heavy rains caused by Hurricane Eta in Morales, north Guatemala City, on Nov. 7, 2020. While international attention remained focused on the U.S. elections, Hurricane Eta made landfall in northeastern Nicaragua and then proceeded to make its way across Honduras, with severe impacts on Guatemala and other countries in the region as it headed back out to sea and regained hurricane strength before hitting the Florida coast. Some Mayangna villages are a day’s walk from the nearest road, and most do not have a cell signal. They get water from the rivers,” he said. The Garifuna diaspora in the U.S. maintains close ties with coastal communities in Central America, and cross-border mutual aid networks offer support in the face of disaster. “Outsiders, who we call the colonos, arrive and they have help from municipal government officials, politicians, certain lawyers, and even some ex-leaders engaged in illegal land sales.”. Maximum sustained winds had decreased slightly to 60 mph (95 kph). Before the hurricane and the pandemic hit Honduras, over 60% of Hondurans lived in poverty. National Civil Police distribute donated clothes to victims of Hurricane Iota queueing at the Chamelecón neighbourhood in San Pedro Sula. A Danish study found that people with elevated levels of a compound called PFBA were more than twice as likely to have a severe form of Covid-19. “The national government did not respond immediately,” said Ricardo Miranda, a member of the National Council of Ngäbe-Buglé Youth. We don’t have ads, so we depend on our members — 35,000 and counting — to help us hold the powerful to account. “The authorities do not care.”. November 6, 2020, 10:12am View of a flooded village in Honduras on November 5 2020 after Hurricane Eta caused heavy rainfall across the region. The last time Honduras suffered a natural disaster of this scale was in 1998, when Hurricane Mitch – the worst natural disaster in Central American history and one of the deadliest Atlantic storms ever – devastated much of the country’s infrastructure. The ICO is now estimating that total exportable coffee production lost in Honduras for the 2020/21 season to be 3%. Photo: Yoseph Amaya/Getty Images; Seth Sidney Berry/SOPA/AP. on about your day, ask yourself: How likely is it that the story you just read would have been produced by a different news outlet if The Intercept hadn’t done it? November 26, 2020 at 6:00 AM EST SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — Blanca Costa crouched on a wooden cart with her three daughters under a highway bridge. As Eta slowly made its way north, days of rain caused widespread flooding: washing out highways and bridges, submerging entire towns, and generating mass displacement. In Honduras, for example, President Juan Orlando Hernández was an unindicted co-conspirator in a case against his brother, a former congressman convicted last year by a U.S. federal court on drug trafficking charges. Aerial view of the flooded Ramon Villeda Morales airport in San Pedro Sula, 240 km north of Tegucigalpa, taken on November 18, 2020 after the passage of Hurricane Iota. This time around global attention – and depleted finances – are focused on the coronavirus pandemic, and there is an absence of US leadership to mobilise support. “We have family and children. 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