Guatemala - While more than 1,500 people are housed in community halls in ten departments, civil and road infrastructure has been seriously affected by the intense rainy season this year reports La Hora.
The winter of this year proves that the country is not prepared to face natural catastrophes such as hurricanes or tropical storms. Dozens of lives has been lost due to rain storms and considerable material losses have occurred.
The National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (CONRED) admitted that at least 1,500 people are housed in community shelters located in the ten departments most affected by the rains, which included Chiquimula, Zacapa and Guatemala.
In the midst of material limitations and unacceptable living conditions, families must endure overcrowded shelters until the government begins implementation of reconstruction projects.
At the time, the Executive Secretariat for the Coordination of the Presidency has addressed the most urgent problems, but resources are insufficient to meet the entire population, concerns the head of that unit, Salvador Gandara.
Damage to infrastructure
Civilian infrastructure-poor in their majority, as well as poorly constructed roads in the municipality of La Union, Zacapa, demonstrated last July that the passage of a rain storm can have fatal consequences for entire populations.
State of Calamity was decreed at that time was decreed in the town, after which 12 people died buried by an avalanche that also brought down a good number of houses.
The rains that have been submitted since that time, typical of the winter season have accounted for losses by millions in damage to major highways that are part of the national road network, which had been damaged and in some cases are destroyed completely.
The Winter continues
Analysts agree on the need to strengthen a system of government response and a create a social front against rain storms that confront the country each year, during the winter.
According to the forecast from the National Institute of Seismology, Volcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology (INSIVUMEH), humidity and rain will continue during October and could be extended to the first week of November.
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