DISRESPECT OF NATURE + ECONOMIC VULNERABILITYDISASTER Tropical Storm Stan hit El Salvador on October 3, 2005. Even though it was only the tail of the hurricane that hit El Salvador, it left 71 dead...
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CIS Emergency flood report #4 - 7 Oct 2005
STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED OCTOBER 3, 4, and 5th IN EL SALVADOR DUE TO TROPICAL STORM STAN General data on the national level: Heavy rains have caused 70 deaths (most buried alive), mudslides,...
Notes on new earthquake and preliminary aid and reconstruction report
By now many of you have heard that El Salvador experienced a second earthquake, today, exactly one month after the January 13 earthquake. Varying reports have stated that it registered 5.6, 5.7, 6.0,...
Disaster strikes El Salvador: 1.4 million left homeless
El Salvador has been shaken by multiple earthquakes, the two strongest exactly one month apart. The destruction is devastating, leaving 1.4 million people homeless and over 1,000 dead. Rampant...
El Salvador: aid to earthquake victims
The CIS and the Salvadoran and international communities have learned a lot about emergency aid from our experience with Hurricane Mitch, both on the political and material aid level. We are in a...
Mitch and the Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad (CIS)
The Centro de Intercambio y Solidaridad (CIS) was formed in 1993 to strengthen people-to-people ties and to contribute to the construction of a new, post-war, El Salvador. In 1997 we consolidated our...