De acuerdo con el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (UNICEF), entre 1980 y el 2014, Honduras padeció 39 desastres naturales que dejaron como saldo 15.539 víctimas (muerte) y 3.456.558 personas afectadas. Eso equivale a 17,79 personas por cada 1.000 habitantes. Anualmente, en 2016, el país registraba un costo por desastres naturales correspondiente al 1,42% del PIB.
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Lucía Vijil Saybe
Latin America Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more
