After Hurricane Mitch: United States Agency for International Development Reconstruction and the Stockholm Principles
Published: January 2001
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Publication Summary
Hurricane Mitch was the worst natural disaster in Nicaraguan history and one of the worst to hit the entire region in decades. Some 3,000 people were killed in Nicaragua and more than 5,000 in Honduras. Some 870,000 people were affected by the storm in Nicaragua (18 percent of the population), while estimates in Honduras reached 75 percent of the population affected by the storm. Total damages in Nicaragua surpassed $1.5 billion, while in Honduras the damages ranged beyond $4 billion. In the region as a whole, more than 9,000 people were killed, 3 million
displaced, and $8.5 billion in damages incurred. Hundreds of bridges, thousands of schools and clinics, and kilometers of water systems and roads were destroyed. Agricultural crops sustained severe losses that will take many years to recover.