The Honduran government has and one million displaced ordered the total evacuation of the flooded Sula Valley near the people in its aftermath.” Atlantic Coast, one of the country’s major economic engines that includes the industrial capital of San Pedro Sula and the important commercial port of Puerto Cortés. [...] As in the case of other natural disasters, the most marginalized and “As in the case of other vulnerable Hondurans have suffered the most. [...] The Afro- natural disasters, the descendant communities of Honduras, the Garífuna, reside along most marginalized and the northern coast near the Bay of Trujillo and La Ceiba, and they vulnerable Hondurans have lost close to everything. [...] In these areas without mattresses or cots, lacking food and masks, and with of the country, the many packed closely together, making the spread of COVID-19 management of waste and all the more likely. [...] The portion of the national budget allocated towards the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment decreases every year; and the explanations for extreme and abrupt weather events are often oversimplified, blamed on the country’s high incidence of poverty and low economic development, rather than on regional and global climate trends.
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