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20 Dec 2002

Mexico
Hurricane relief project planned for southern Mexico

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— Mennonite Central Committee

CAMPECHE, Mexico - Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is committing $44,500 Cdn./$30,000 U.S. to assist people in southern Mexico communities damaged in October by Hurricane Isadore. Funds will be split equally between the eight low German-speaking Mennonite colonies in Campeche state and the surrounding indigenous communities.
An MCC assessment team visited the region shortly after the hurricane. In the colonies, where family income is derived almost entirely from farming, nearly an entire harvest was lost -- including

16 Dec 2002

Costa Rica + 6 others
Central America Region Appeal No. 01.50/2003

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— IFRC

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11 Dec 2002

Argentina + 6 others
ODM-WFP emergency situation report on Latin America & the Caribbean 11 Dec 2002

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— World Food Programme

#48/2002
1. Colombia

Reporting Period: 12/04 to 12/10/2002

a) Significant Events:

Food was stolen from WFP delivery trucks, clearly marked with UN/WFP flags, at roadblocks resulting from armed groups confrontations in the provinces of Choco and Antioquia.

b) Security:

WFP Bogota office continues in high alert for security reasons.

c) Implementation:

WFP is currently delivering 178.5 MT of food for FFW and Community Kitchen projects.

2. Cuba

IRA/EMOP 10239

Reporting Date: 12/09/2002

a) Significant Events:

After its approval on 7 October, IRA/EMOP

05 Nov 2002

Mexico
Hurricane Isidore response updated 05 Nov 2002

Report

— Food for the Hungry

A grant from FHI's Rapid Response Fund helped Christians in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula assist their neighbours in the wake of Hurricane Isidore.
Yucatan Presbyterian Ministries (YPM) used FHI's grant to purchase food for 400 people in the villages of Sinaché and Telchac. Youth from Bethesda Presbyterian Church of Canc=FAn packed the food items and assisted in the deliveries. Food packages included cooking oil, rice, canned tuna, beans, corn flour, powdered milk, lentils and salt.

In the early days after the storm, YPM

04 Nov 2002

Mexico
Ayuda humanitaria a México

Report

— Government of Spain

La Oficina de Información Diplomática del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores hace público el siguiente comunicado:

9.191 AYUDA HUMANITARIA A MÉXICO

31 Oct 2002

Mexico
Farmers hit by Kenna

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— IFRC

Federation News 22
On 25 October, Hurricane Kenna struck the Pacific coast of Mexico as a category 3 hurricane. One person died and 54 were injured in what was the second strongest hurricane to hit the country since 1988. Around 15,000 people from 32 communities were evacuated the day before it struck. Thousands of houses were damaged in the cities of San Blas and Santiago Ixcluintla, while floods hit the tourist city of Puerto Vallarta. But Kenna wreaked most havoc in rural areas around San Blas, Tecuala and Acaponeta, where entire fruit and tobacco crops were

31 Oct 2002

Mexico
Mexico: Direct Relief's programme activities update Oct 2002

Report

— Direct Relief

Recipient: Secretaria de Salud
Shipment Date: 10/4/2002 Value: $213,094
Hurricane Isidore hit Mexico's southern state of Yucatan on September 23, causing extensive damage to homes, schools, hotels, and other buildings, and decimating the agricultural sector of this lush, tropical area. Nearly 100,000 people had to be evacuated from high-risk coastal areas, and since the region depends almost entirely on tourism and agriculture for its primary means of support, thousands of people lost their jobs and their livelihoods. International appeals from

30 Oct 2002

El Salvador + 4 others
ODM-WFP emergency situation report on Latin America & the Caribbean 30 Oct 2002

Report

— World Food Programme

#42/2002
1. Central America PRRO 10212.0

WFP has approved a new US$66 million operation in Central America to assist an additional 690,000 people who are affected by droughts, the region-wide coffee crisis and other crises.

WFP currently assists 1.575 million people in Central America and has been responding recently to nutritional crises in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua with emergency programs for acutely malnourished children and their families.

If fully funded, the new WFP operation will assist 240,000 people in Honduras; 200,000 in Guatemala; 150,000 in

29 Oct 2002

Chile + 10 others
2002: Natural disasters set to cost over $ 70 Billion

Report

— UN Environment Programme

Insurers Warn of Mounting Price Tag of Climate Change at COP8 Meeting
Delhi/Nairobi, 29 October 2002 - Record-breaking rains, triggering devastating floods in Europe, destruction of homes across the Caribbean and life-threatening mudslides in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, have been a key feature of 2002.

Natural catastrophes, the vast majority of which have been weather-related, have cost countries and communities an estimated $56 billion during the period January to September 2002, a preliminary study shows. The final bill for this year's natural disasters

28 Oct 2002

Mexico
Mexico: Hurricane Kenna Information Bulletin No. 02/02

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— IFRC

This Information Bulletin is for information only. The Federation is not seeking any funding or other assistance from donors for this operation at this time.
The Situation

On Friday afternoon (local time), Hurricane Kenna struck the coastal areas of the Mexican state of Nayarit as a category 3 hurricane (the Saffir-Simpson scale). The Civil Defence representatives reported 1 person dead and 54 injured due to falling trees, electric posts and windows. The States most affected were Nayarit, Jalisco, Sinaloa y Colima and places with severe damages are San Blas, Santiago Ixcuintla,

28 Oct 2002

Mexico
Mexican subsistence farmers worst hit by hurricane Kenna

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— IFRC

by Fernando Nuño in Guatemala City.
"First, Isidore hit from the east, now Kenna has struck from the west", says Francisco Navas, surveying what was a banana crop a week ago, but is now a field of flattened palms.

Like Hurricane Isidore in the Yucatan Peninsula a month ago, Hurricane Kenna has battered the hopes and livelihoods of many subsistence farmers and their families along Mexico's central Pacific coast.

"In many cases, roofs were ripped from the houses and rainfall flooded homes," said Isaac Oxenhaut,

27 Oct 2002

Mexico
Hurricane Kenna roars into Mexico

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— DisasterRelief

Written by Mason Booth, DisasterRelief.org
Hurricane Kenna, a powerful Category 4 hurricane with 145 mph winds, roared into San Blas, Mexico, a small tourist and fishing town 80 miles north of popular tourist spot Puerto Vallarta. The once quaint, coastal village is now a wasteland of splintered wood, twisted metal and crumbled buildings. Back hoes and dump trucks clear the streets of debris as well as mountains of sand washed in from the sea. Despite the widespread damage, there was only one reported death of a woman killed by a falling wall.

Federal authorities said communications

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27 Oct 2002

Mexico
Boletín del Huracan "Kenna" del Océano Pacifico 27 oct 2002

Report

— Centro Nacional de Prevención de Desastres

Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil
Coordinación General de Protección Civil
Centro Nacional de Prevención de Desastres

SISTEMA DE ALERTA TEMPRANA
BOLETIN METEOROLOGICO
ETAPA DE ALERTA

MEXICO, D. F., A 27 DE OCTUBRE DE 2002

Sistemas meteorológicos principales

Remanentes de "Kenna" disipados en el noreste del país.

Frente estacionario no. 8 a través de un canal de baja presión en el Atlántico, cruzando el norte del golfo de México hasta el sur de Tamaulipas. La masa de aire frío asociada domina

27 Oct 2002

Mexico
México: Firme apoyo del gobierno federal a estados para reestablecer los daños causados por "Kenna"

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— Government of Mexico

SCM Boletín N=BA426/02

México D.F. a 27 de Octubre del 2002 - Se procederá de inmediato a la evaluación de los daños con el fin de destinar los recursos necesarios para su reparación, afirma.

El secretario de la Defensa Nacioanal, Ricardo Clemente Vega García, encabezó con Creel Miranda la sesión de Consejo Estatal de Protección Civil.

El secretario de Gobernación, Santiago Creel Miranda, realizó hoy una gira de trabajo por los estados de Jalisco y Nayarit con el fin de supervisar las acciones de atención a las ciudades

26 Oct 2002

Mexico
Hurricane Kenna leaves three dead, scores injured in Mexico

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MEXICO CITY, Oct 26, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Powerful Hurricane Kenna left three people dead and scores of others injured as it toppled trees and power lines in Mexico's Pacific coast, the authorities confirmed on Saturday.

Hurricane Kenna, which slammed into Mexico's Pacific coast on Friday, killed two women in Nayarit state and another one in Jalisco States.

In Jalisco's Puerto Vallarta, a tourist resort, at least 52 people were injured as the hurricane hurled objects through the air, leaving debris strewn in streets.

Also in Puerto Vallarta, about 2,000

26 Oct 2002

Mexico
Puerto Vallarta begins to rebuild following storm Kenna

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— Agence France-Presse

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico, Oct 26 (AFP) - Merchants, laborers and volunteers worked feverishly in driving rain Saturday to begin rebuilding this posh Pacific coastal resort battered by hurricane Kenna.

Packing sustained winds of 130 miles (210 km) an hour and six meter (19 foot) waves, Kenna forced evacuation of at least 20,000 residents and tourists in the Pacific coastal states of Jalisco and Nayarit.

Federal authorities attributed at least two deaths to the storm, with two other people seriously injured, and substantial

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26 Oct 2002

Mexico
México: Remanentes nubosos de "Kenna" cubren zona fronteriza de Coahuila, Nuevo León y Tamaulipas

Report

— Government of Mexico

Boletín N=BA 424/02

México D.F. a 26 de Octubre del 2002

- Mantendrán precipitaciones muy fuertes en el noroeste de estas entidades

- En tanto, la Onda Tropical "49" se encuentra al occidente de Oaxaca

- Otra nueva Onda Tropical llegará mañana al sur de Quintana Roo

El Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil (Sinaproc) informa que desde la noche de ayer el ciclón tropical "Kenna" se redujo a Depresión Tropical y siguió perdiendo intensidad para presentarse esta mañana sólo como remanentes nubosos, ubicados sobre la zona fronteriza

25 Oct 2002

Mexico
Pronóstico de la trayectoria del Huracán "Kenna" para las próximas horas

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— Government of Mexico

English translation: PROGNOSIS OF THE TRAJECTORY OF HURRICANE "KENNA" FOR THE NEXT HOURS

25 Oct 2002

Mexico
Hurricane Kenna hits Mexico

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— IFRC

Hurricane Kenna has hit Mexico's Pacific coast and Mexican Red Cross volunteers and staff are on hand, prepared to help those affected if needed.
A hurricane warning is in effect for the south-west coast of Mexico from Mazatlan to La Fortuna, including the Islas Marias, and a tropical storm warning has been issued south of La Fortuna to Manzanillo.

The Mexican Red Cross is mobilising its branches and volunteers, as well as relief goods. The Mexican Red Cross headquarters has made available 75 tonnes of relief supplies including water, food, clothing and medicines to the Jalisco branch.

25 Oct 2002

Mexico
Boletín del Huracan "Kenna" del Océano Pacifico 25 oct 2002

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— Centro Nacional de Prevención de Desastres

Sistema Nacional de Protección Civil
Coordinación General de Protección Civil
Dirección General de Protección Civil

SISTEMA DE ALERTA TEMPRANA

BOLETIN METEOROLOGICO

MEXICO, D. F. A 25 DE OCTUBRE 2002 HORA: 07:30H BOLETÍN No: 18

ETAPA DE ALARMA: JALISCO E ISLAS MARIAS
ETAPA DE EMERGENCIA: NAYARIT Y SINALOA
ETAPA DE ALERTA: BCS., COL., DGO., ZAC. E ISLA SOCORRO
ETAPA DE AVISO: GRO., MICH., SON., COAH. Y N.L.

HURACAN "KENNA"DEL OCÉANO PACIFICO

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