Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Honduras recibió el 2021 with the devastation by COVID-19 and the cause of the tropical and Eta tornado torments in 2020, which is the result of an economic, political and social crisis that has been arrested since 2009.
Only the COVID-19 pandemic began to expand in March 2020, leaving the country in December, 3,141 dead and 122,763 contagious, according to official figures.
In the days of the pandemic, which are even more severe during three months, all economic activity is taking place estragos causados por Eta y Iota which will add up to a hundred deaths, miles of damned and quantitatively lost materials.
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According to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal) and the Central Bank of Honduras, the days when the pandemic and the tornadoes hit the 100,000 million lempiras (more than 4,140 million dollars), representing a golf course for a country with 9.5 million inhabitants, of which more than 60% are poor.
Priorities in 2021
Analysts in a separate private sector, the reconstruction of the infrastructure infrastructure and the recovery of the economy must be priorities in 2021, a year that will see internal and general elections in March and November, the undecided ones since the return to democracy in 1980.
Directives of the Honduran Council of Private Employment (Cohep) calculate that due to the pandemic 600,000 jobs will be lost, of which many will not be recovered because many micro, small and median companies will be closed and others will be required to report.
The land needed, in addition, is recovering the infrastructure destroyed by the Eta and Iota towers, mainly in the north and west, which would affect the most affected regions.
These phenomena degenerate into primary, secondary and tertiary trajectories, points, content boards, agricultural cultivation losses, livelihoods, public editions, private and many other industries, among others.
In some of the regions of the extension and fertility Valle de Sula, in the north, todavía hay aguas estancadas in las que asoman viviendas cuyos propietarios esperan que baje el nivan para saber si volverán a construir en el mismo sitio, como es el case de Dunia Ponce , en el barrio Municipal, de La Lima.
“I’m not able to suck anything, I’ve lost everything, my house is falling apart, I can not enter it, I’ve been hoping that both the water and the lot that we have here,” he said.
Dunia, 37 years old, mother in law, with three children, the mayor of 17, and the minorities of 6 and 3 years, is living in a space of his father’s house used as a bodega, which is located 20 metros de donde esta sumergida la suya.
To subside, Dunia dedicates herself “to the sale of corn and ballad tortillas” (trilled, double-bladed tortilla, with fried fries and quince rolled or mantquilla).
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The Dunia family is one of the 1,500 that were affected by the floods in northern Honduras between November 4 and 20, when the most intense floods occurred in Eta and Iota.
Some of them families affected, two months later, there are many living things, as in the Chamelecon sector or in makeshift camps that provide orillas and median boulevards between the cities of San Pedro Sula, La Lima and El Progreso.
Primary and general elections
Honduras has more than 40 years of power, returning to the constitutional order, celebrating this year’s primary elections in March, which only have the three largest parties (National, in the power of Liberty and Refund, first of all) dean that participates in the general of november.
Sin haber resuelto las crisis from 2009 and 2017, Honduras initiated the regressive reckoning of a political year that, for some opposition leaders, the governing National Party would continue to push for power, including no discretion that Hernandez claims to be in power, even if the governing body has called him Presidencial.
Regarding the electoral process, Oscar Andrés Rodríguez, the Honduran cardinal, says that the politicians aspiring to the power “must think in common”.
200 years old
Honduras, formerly Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua, recorded this year the 200th anniversary of its independence from the Spanish Corona, which took place on September 15, 1821.
The anniversary of Independence, for which the Gobierno Honduras has predicted cultural events, will be recorded between the pandemic, first vacations will be held in March, the destruction that Eta and Iota will be, the poverty and electoral process that will take place it hopes to be transparent in order not to discredit the fragile democracy of the country.