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REDLAC Weekly Note on Emergencies - Latin America & the Caribbean - Year 8 - Volume 387

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Highlights

  • INTENSE RAINS: In the last weeks of 2014 rains affected several countries in South America. Regions in the departments of Huanuco in Peru, La Paz in Bolivia and the province of Misiones in Argentina were affected by a strong storm.

  • FOREST FIRES: 11 departments in Colombia are on alert for forest fires. There have been 80 emergencies so far.

  • MIGRANTS: about 50,000 children were deported from the United States and Mexico in 2014, mostly from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

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