Latin America appears to have sustained minimal damage from the tsunami generated by Japan’s massive 8.9 earthquake on Friday. Ecuador‘s government today lifted the state of emergency from the Galapagos Islands, and people all along the West Coast of Latin America returned to their homes this weekend. The Galapagos sustained the heaviest damage, with some [...]
A massive magnitude 8.9 earthquake rocked the Japan coast this morning (Friday, March 11th), triggering tsunami warnings for twenty countries, including the coasts of Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. While it appears that the tsunami will have minimal effect on Central America, Ecuador and [...]
Anyone who travels regularly to Latin America has heard the questions. Right after “But isn’t it awfully dangerous?” usually comes “Don’t people get sick down there a lot?” The answers are no and no – most of Latin American is quite safe, and people who take sensible precautions usually stay perfectly healthy. The key is [...]
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After weeks of heavy rains, Bolivia is beset by floods and mudslides. The poorer regions of the capitol city, La Paz, are particularly hard-hit, with hundreds of homes swept away by mudslides. It appears that relatively few lives have been lost, although there has been at least one unverified report to the contrary. Threatened areas [...]
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