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Child and Teenage Pregnancy: An alarming tendency in Central America

Ileana Fernandez - May 12, 2022

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Poverty and violence push 378,000 Central Americans north each year

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5 Ways to Avoid Getting Sick Traveling in Central America

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Power outage due to unknown failure affects Central America

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Back-to-back hurricanes exacerbate poverty in Nicaragua

The Tico Times -

The North Caribbean, one of the poorest regions of Nicaragua, is mired in uncertainty and despair after the double blow of hurricanes Eta and Iota, which sowed death and destruction in Central America.

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Central American states count cost of Iota amid search for bodies

The Tico Times -

Rescue workers dug through mounds of thick mud in the grim search for bodies as Central American countries began to count the cost of Hurricane Iota.

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Iota leaves 38 dead after tearing through Central America

The Tico Times -

Iota's death toll rose to 38 on Wednesday after the year's biggest Atlantic storm unleashed mudslides, tore apart buildings and left thousands homeless across Central America, revisiting areas devastated by another hurricane just two weeks ago.

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Iota dissipates over El Salvador after leaving wave of deaths in Central America

The Tico Times -

Central American countries began to see an improvement in the weather on Wednesday after suffering the violent impact of cyclone Iota, which dissipated over El Salvador after leaving at least 14 dead, flooded towns and damage to road infrastructure.

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Tropical Storm Iota reaches Honduras; cyclone has killed at least eight

Alejandro Zúñiga -

The current hurricane season in the Atlantic has broken records. Iota is the 13th of 30 named storms recorded this year to reach hurricane status.

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Hurricane Iota’s landfall was just 15 miles from Hurricane Eta’s

Alejandro Zúñiga -

Hurricane Iota’s landfall location was just 15 miles (25 km) south of where Hurricane Eta made landfall just two weeks before, according to the National Hurricane Center.

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Hurricane Iota tears through Central America after Nicaragua landfall

The Tico Times -

Hurricane Iota was barreling through Central America on Tuesday, hours after making landfall as the strongest Atlantic storm this year along a stretch of Nicaraguan coast devastated by a powerful storm just two weeks ago.

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Hurricane Iota, maximum Category 5 strength, makes landfall in Nicaragua

Alejandro Zúñiga -

Iota made landfall Monday on Nicaragua's northern Caribbean coast as a maximum Category 5 hurricane, accompanied by catastrophic winds, rain and storm surge, a top meteorological official said.

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Hurricane Iota bears down on storm-battered Central America

The Tico Times -

Iota was upgraded to a hurricane early Sunday, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

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Hard-hit Central America in crosshairs of another hurricane

Alejandro Zúñiga -

Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua announced evacuations Friday as a second major hurricane in days closed in on Central America with the region still reeling from deadly storm Eta last week.