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The storms hit Central America just two weeks apart in November, killing more than 200 people in devastating floods and landslides. In Honduras, more than 1,400 homes, several dozen bridges and more than three million hectares of crops were destroyed, according to Rosales.
“We reiterate our call to our allies and the international community to join us in this process of sustainable reconstruction of the country,” said the foreign minister in an online meeting with his counterparts from the EU, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Biden promises help
Eta and Iota passed through Central America as Category 4 and 5 hurricanes, respectively. Since then, thousands of people have been living in fragile shelters in the northern city of San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras since flooding forced them from their homes. Some of them are now considering emigrating to the United States. The country’s incoming president, Joe Biden, pledged more financial aid to the region after his predecessor, Donald Trump, withdrew from aid.
Honduras is one of the countries most affected after the storms, but it is not clear how the Foreign Minister calculated that the damage amounts to the equivalent of 84 billion Swedish crowns. Neighboring Nicaragua, which was also hit by the hurricanes, has reported damage of the equivalent of just over 6.2 billion Swedish crowns.
“Worst disaster”
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has called the double hurricane gown the worst disaster to ever hit the country. However, hurricanes were not as deadly as Hurricane Mitch 1988, when about 10,000 people died in Central America, many of them in Honduras.
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