The United States ambassador in Managua, Kevin K Sullivanexpressed solidarity with the Nicaraguan people for the ravages caused by Hurricane Julia, after it entered the early hours of Sunday, July 9, mainly affecting the Caribbean Coast.
“My prayers are with Nicaraguans today after Hurricane Julia passed through the country,” the diplomat said on Monday, through his official Twitter account.
He added that the government of Joe Biden is evaluating “how best to collaborate with the efforts to help those affected,” which according to preliminary data, the figures amounted to 1,500 families.
After its passage, Hurricane Julia, downgraded to a tropical storm, caused destruction when it hit the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua early Sunday morning, in category 1 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. So far, the government of Daniel Ortega has not registered any victims.
The 140-kilometer-per-hour winds tore off the roofs of homes, toppled trees, snapped electrical cables and left some coastal areas without power, while the rains caused flooding in some sectors, local authorities reported.
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Julia, which impacted near Laguna de Perlas at 01:15 local time (07:15 GMT), did not degrade immediately after entering land, as expected by the Nicaraguan Institute for Territorial Studies (Ineter), despite the fact that its maximum sustained winds They went down to 140 kilometers per hour.
For her part, the Vice President of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, in her customary midday address, through her propaganda media, used the same partisan rhetoric when saying that the victims of the hurricane are “blessed, prosperous and in victories,” because According to her, it was possible to get ahead after the passage of the natural phenomenon.
“We managed to get ahead defending life, we managed to get ahead by making life worthwhile from all the lessons learned, all our practices of defending life in everyday life, on a day-to-day basis,” the first lady boasted, without mentioning the 1,500 affected families. .
He also stated that “thank God we turned out well (…) The material is replaced, thank God we know and we have internalized that the material can be replaced and the most valuable thing to protect is life and in each home and in each family take care of ourselves so as not to mourn tragedies.
