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    Heavy rains kill at least 84 in Central America

    SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A week of heavy rains across Central America have caused landslides, floods and bridge collapses that have left at least 84 people dead, authorities said Monday. Nine others are missing.

    El Salvador's director of civil protection, Jorge Melendez, said the rain will continue until at least Wednesday because of the presence of two low pressure systems in the area.

    The amount of rain over the last seven days exceeds the cumulative record of Hurricane Mitch, which devastated the region in 1998, killing 11,000 people, Melendez said.

    El Salvador and Nicaragua leaders declared natural disasters on Monday.

    Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom reached out to congress to speed budget decisions to funnel money for the affected.

    In El Salvador, 32 people have been killed because of the rains, while Guatemala added 31 fatalities. Another 13 people were killed in Honduras, and Nicaragua's First Lady and spokesman Rosario Murillo said eight have died in Nicaragua.

    The rains have affected about 250,000 people. Thousands of them were staying in shelters.

     

    20 comments

    • Sung  •  7 mths ago
      Wow! can't believe how many satan worshipers post their venom here. You think you're so superior and mighty when you refer to this countries and the misery they are going thru. When in reality your sorry souls are so dark and full of filth and you know it. When catastrophe comes upon you, God will not be there to lend you a hand, but your who will.
      • Kol Nidre 7 mths ago
        Oh, save me sweet Jesus for I have sinned!
      • Dreamasterr 7 mths ago
        Sung - I am an atheist so I of course I don't believe God lends a hand, but I could not agree more with your basic sentiment more. There are a lot of dark and sociopathic people collecting on the sidelines. What goes around comes around.
      • Sung 7 mths ago
        Dreamasterr - I def concur. Most of us are just one paycheck away from economic misery.
    • Senor Pescador  •  7 mths ago
      Lord have mercy so much disasters in such a small country, where I live since 1994, Mitch, Ida now this, we have not fished so much in years, GOD BLESS US
    • Perfect Fit  •  7 mths ago
      I have to blame this one on Dwight D Eisenhower. In 1946 after WWII he was in league with the Knights Templar and Freemasons to create a weather control system known as THUNDERHEAD. They began studies and tests in Central America knowing they would not be discovered until long after Ike was dead and his presidential legacy secure. The CIA in league with El Salvadorian military leaders began the testing in earnest in 1978. It was a successful program until the upheaval of the Iran-Contra scandal. The funding dried up and the El Salvadorian leaders used the program to begin controlling any political unrest in the area with flooding when needed. As with any program that had gone rogue and out of the CIA's control, the outcome was doomed to failure. Culminating in this week's tragic results.
    • Lara  •  7 mths ago
      I hope god will protect all these people. You can never be prepared enough for a natural disaster.
      • Sung 7 mths ago
        I thank God that there are still good people in this Country such as your self, your words speak great things about you. Can't say much about the other devils posting venom here. God bless you Lara.
    • otto  •  7 mths ago
      Just so you all know, I live in Costa Rica. Technically none have been killed because of government way of reporting but in reality we have had 5 deaths. The government is trying to save face.......go figure!!!!!!!
    • einstien  •  7 mths ago
      God be with you in your time of trouble.
    • JR  •  7 mths ago
      Heavy rain doesn't kill people. That's like saying guns kill people. If heavy rains and guns kill people, spoons must have made Rosie Odonnel fat.
      • duke nukem all 7 mths ago
        that's a good one lol a thumbs up from me
      • Dreamasterr 7 mths ago
        Although somewhat amusing, [ I admit I laughed ] your analogy is of course 100%
        misleading in that many people who kill others with guns, would be hard pressed to kill with their bare hands, whereas Rosie might actually make greater speed without a spoon.
    • baby boomer  •  7 mths ago
      It helps if they do not deforest the land--less flooding--
    • NWO-NERD-BOY  •  7 mths ago
      This is the kind of #$%$ i'm talking about i blabe Omamo somao and the Demeorats for this all folks.
    • Michael  •  7 mths ago
      Perhaps if the US declare a "War on Heavy Rain", more deaths may be avoided !
    • peedee  •  7 mths ago
      God have mercy on those people yet another natural event :( please get right with God
      • RLJ 7 mths ago
        or at least move to higher ground.
    • Mike Johnson  •  7 mths ago
      Keep cuttin down the forest and this will look like a sprinkle!
    • baby boomer  •  7 mths ago
      Central American the young Women are beautyfull---- Go to Costa Rica on vacation--by yourself, good fishing also--besides the red snapper! Good place to retire--Mamy Americans have--
    • Kevin  •  7 mths ago
      9/11. Inside job by the CIA.
    • baby boomer  •  7 mths ago
      It is OK---95 million left------
    • clarissa m  •  7 mths ago
      will the drug dealers give their money to help their own people? will the gangs give their money? why is it that n america is always called upon to help or take in a few thousand a year? why is it that homes are built in flood zones or seems like these countrys always have some kinda problems? are americans just suppose to ignore their own starving and homeless to always help others? Im not saying we should not help, but we got massive problems of our own right here. will they take in mass numbers of migrant workers to build their country up? course thats a form of slavery that america seems good at and that the political partys seem to avoid all the time. does anyone think that if my modest home was taken by a twister or carried away by floods that american government would do #$%$ for me? sure local people will help and my insurance that I pay for may help. but really?
    • hermain cain  •  7 mths ago
      global warming is obivously a hoax
    • Know It All  •  7 mths ago
      84 less to sneak into the USA!
    • OZZY  •  7 mths ago
      Let's bring all the victims to the USA
    • Foxtards Revil  •  7 mths ago
      Thank God for all the Killings. In God's Killings, Amen!
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