GUATEMALA - Con el objetivo de apoyar a las familias del área conocida como “corredor seco” y “corredor seco extendido”, los gobiernos de Brasil y España han unido esfuerzos y entregaron 456.5 TM de arroz proveniente de Brasil al gobierno de Guatemala a través del Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA).

Las familias afectadas han perdido cosechas y otros medios de vida luego del último período de canícula extendida.

28 April 2013
Jerusalem

Brazil’s major rice producing state, Rio Grande do Sul, through the Federal Government of Brazil, has donated 11.500 metric tons of rice stocks to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The announcement was made in Jerusalem’s Shufa’at refugee camp today by Rio Grande do Sul Governor, Tarso Genro. “I am delighted to be here among the Palestinian refugees who will benefit from this food produced in my state.

According to the Ministry of Health, 132 deaths have been registered as a result of dengue in Brazil during the first trimester of 2013. Active dengue cases have increased by approximately 279% compared to the same period in 2012.

During the first three months of this year, 635.161 infected people have been registered, of which 1.417 are considered severe cases, as per the latest report issued by the Ministry of Health.

Durante las últimas semanas, las fuertes lluvias, deslizamientos de tierra e inundaciones han afectado a varios países de la región (Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Paraguay, Perú y Uruguay, entre otros) en los que se han producido situaciones de emergencia con importantes daños personales y materiales.

La cifra de personas fallecidas se eleva a decenas, varias personas continúan desaparecidas y el número de afectados es de varios cientos de miles según los reportes oficiales.

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:15 GMT

Source: alertnet // Rafael Spuldar

SAO PAULO (AlertNet) – Increasingly heavy summer rainfall, linked to changing climate conditions, is taking a worsening toll on Brazil. Just this month, 30 people died when heavy rain caused landslides in Petrópolis, a city located in the highlands of Rio de Janeiro state.

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Over 44,000 people from 30 Members States and 15 of the territories* in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions participated in the second full scale regional tsunami exercise held on March 20, 2013.

Thirty-two countries* will participate in a full-scale tsunami alert exercise in the Caribbean on 20 March 2013. The goal is to test the reaction capacity in countries of the Caribbean and adjacent regions, including the East Coast of Canada and the United States, the Gulf of Mexico and Bermuda. The exercise was organized under the auspices of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC).

03/20/2013 02:44 GMT

RIO DE JANEIRO, March 20, 2013 (AFP) - At least 27 people were killed by landslides caused by heavy rains in a mountainous area of the Brazilian sate of Rio de Janeiro, authorities said Tuesday.

The heavy downpour also forced 1,466 people to leave their homes or left them homeless. The deluge began late Sunday in and around Petropolis, located 68 kilometers (42 miles) north of Rio de Janeiro, officials said.

The bodies of two boys and a girl who had been unaccounted for were found Tuesday in a stream, firefighters said.

03/18/2013 18:36 GMT

Rio de Janeiro, March 18, 2013 (AFP) - Landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed 13 people over the past 24 hours in the Brazilian tourist town of Petropolis, an official said Monday.

"We are in a state of maximum alert," Rio state governor Sergio Cabral told a news conference in Petropolis, a former imperial capital located 68 kilometers (42 miles) north of Rio de Janeiro, as he updated the death toll from 10.