Thread: Guatemalan president warns of 'hoards' of migrants unless rich nations help

Guatemalan president warns of 'hoards' of migrants unless rich nations help










Guatemala's President Alejandro Giammattei looks on during a news conference in Guatemala City





Mon, November 16, 2020, 7:12 PM EST




GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala's president on Monday cautioned that Central America would need help from rich countries to stave off more migration, with powerful Hurricane Iota hours from wreaking destruction in the poor region still reeling from recent storms.

"If we don't want hoards of Central Americans looking to move to other countries with better living conditions, we have to make a wall of prosperity in Central America," President Alejandro Giammattei said at an event in Honduras with the Central American Bank for Economic Integration.

In 2018, the first of a series of migrant caravans set off from Central America aiming to reach the United States, despite strict migration policies under U.S. President Donald Trump, who has called for building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Along with the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis, experts have warned the aftermath of hurricane season could fuel a new round of migration from the region.

Catastrophic rainfall from Hurricane Eta earlier this month has already destroyed entire crops, and Hurricane Iota, a category 5 storm set to roar into Nicaragua overnight, is expected to bring further flooding.

"A physical wall isn't going to hold back the needs of the people," Giammattei added, speaking alongside Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez.
Both said Central America has been the worst affected region in the world by climate change, itself spurred by "industrialized" countries.

Giammattei also called for ending a "vicious cycle" of taking on debt every time natural disasters strike Central America.

"This human development won't be achieved easily and simply through speeches, it will require actions, and actions that come from industrialized nations," Giammattei said.

(Reporting by Sofia Menchu and Daina Beth Solomon; Editing by Christopher Cushing)


https://www.yahoo.com/news/guatemala...001225469.html

Oh hell no. We do not want your "hordes" of overbreeding citizens.

Stop dumping your people and your problems over OUR border.

How about clear out your prisons of your gangs and put them down like the violent vermin they are.

Not ONE dime of our money. We are 30 trillion in debt. No housing, no welfare, no school, no healthcare.

No TPS!!!

Get our troops on the border NOW.

Call Daddy Soros, Gates, and Bloomberg to fund YOUR disaster and get on birth control.

We have 30 million to deport.

Our states are decimated by fires, floods, tornados, mudslides, hurricanes, and rain.


We give these corrupt nations billions for decades with ZERO results. Money will NEVER solve your problems. Quit breeding in the dirt, get investors to create jobs, and keep out!


No more money, no aid, no oatmeal.

You created your misery...now you wallow in it!

'In the hands of God:' Central America bears brunt of powerful hurricane Iota








People carry their belongings while heading to a shelter as Hurricane Iota approaches Puerto Cabezas



Wilmer LopezTue, November 17, 2020, 1:03 AM EST



By Wilmer Lopez

PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua (Reuters) - Hurricane Iota sent zinc roofing flying into the streets, toppled electricity poles and flayed palm trees as its core approached a remote Central American coast on Tuesday, the second giant storm to tear at the area this month.

Iota reached northeastern Nicaragua late on Monday with sustained winds of nearly 155 miles per hour (250 kmh). It is expected to weaken after moving westward into neighboring Honduras, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).

Puerto Cabezas, still partly flooded and strewn with debris from the force of Hurricane Eta two weeks ago, again bore the brunt of the storm. Frightened residents huddled in shelters and worried about food and their lives.

"We could die," said Inocencia Smith, in a shelter in the town of about 40,000 people.

"There is nothing to eat at all," she said, adding that the area's farms were wrecked by Eta.

The wind tore the roof off a makeshift hospital. Patients were evacuated, including two women who gave birth during the first rains of the storm on Monday, and others in intensive care, Vice-President Rosario Murillo told a news conference.

About 40,000 people in Nicaragua have been evacuated to shelters, authorities said. Many coastal areas are at risk of storm surges of as much as 20 feet (6 meters) above normal tides.

In Honduras, 80,000 people were moved to safety.

"It's the strongest hurricane that has touched Nicaraguan soil since records began," said Marcio Baca, director of the Nicaraguan Institute of Earth Studies.
This is the first time two major hurricanes have formed in the Atlantic basin in November since records began in 1851.

Iota was also the first category 5 storm of the hurricane season before losing a little wind speed off the coast to reach land as a category 4.

Even after weakening, Iota's rain - with up to 30 inches (76 cm) expected - could cause landslides and more flooding across the water-logged region, the NHC warned, compounding the damage wrought by Eta across Central America.

Eta devastated crops and washed away hillsides two weeks ago, killing dozens.
"We are in the hands of God. If I have to climb up trees, I'll do it," said Jaime Caal Cuz, 53, a farmer in Guatemala's southeastern province of Izabal. After taking his family to a shelter, he stayed to guard the house and their belongings.

"We don't have food, but we are going to wait here for the hurricane that we're asking God to stop from coming," he said.

(Reporting by Wilmer Lopez in Puerto Cabezas, Ismael Lopez in Mexico City, Gustavo Palencia in Tegucigalpa, Sofia Menchu in Guatemala City; Writing by Daina Beth Solomon; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel, Robert Birsel)


https://www.yahoo.com/news/hands-god...060356513.html

Send them pictures of the wasteland we suffered in the United States by our fires, floods, tornados, hurricanes, flooded homes, roads out, and sinkholes.

Slam the border shut! You cannot come here!

Relocate them all within in your own country. The water will recede and YOU all can roll up your sleeves and clean it up!

Not one dime of our money while we have homeless, long lines for food banks, and rebuilding our own state disasters!