Failure to prepare for climate change is costing Honduras dear
Weeks after the most recent storm, the country is still in emergency mode
“We don’t have anything left,” says Julio Balico García, a farmer from Río Viejo, a village in Honduras’s Atlántida department on the country’s Caribbean coast. When a tropical storm called Sara hit Central America in mid-November, his concrete house was washed away. Only one jagged wall remains.
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This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Washing away”
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