* Honduras’s President Xiomara Castro has announced a national emergency in all 18 departments due to the rains caused by Tropical Storm Pilar which reached the Central American coast at the end of October, affecting areas along the Pacific coast of El Salvador (which declared a national emergency last week), Honduras, and Nicaragua. President Castro’s announcement instructs the country’s permanent contingency commission (Copeco), a government entity created to coordinate public and private disaster relief efforts, to maintain the national risk management system active in order that institutions responsible for construction, reparation and maintenance of infrastructure works, such as the Honduran social investment fund (FHIS) and infrastructure & transport ministry (SIT) are able to assign necessary contracts for works, goods and services to address the impact of the emergency. Regional media outlets are reporting that at least five people have died in Central America as a result of the storms.
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LatinNews Daily - 6 November 2023
In brief: Honduras declares national emergency over rains
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