The Vice President of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, announced this Monday through her propaganda media of “the alert” that her administration maintains in the face of the tropical depression heading for the Nicaraguan Caribbean and that it would be entering between Friday, July 2.
“We are attentive to what until now has been a tropical disturbance that occurs 1,440 kilometers away in the arc of the Lesser Antilles towards the Nicaraguan and Central American coasts,” explained the spokeswoman for the dictatorship.
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He added that the director of the Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies (Ineter), Marcio Baca, this morning gave a report “of what we are observing, constantly monitoring; preparing for what could be a major event, an event similar to the ones we have had.
He assured that his government has achieved preparation through meetings and prevention exercises in the face of these natural phenomena. “We know how to act and we hope in God that if this phenomenon arrives, it impacts us as little as possible and we know how to defend and protect life in all its forms,” he said.
He also reported that meetings are being held in Bilwi and in the mining areas to point out with authorities of the National System for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Attention (Sinapred), “to point out that the family and community plans are being fulfilled since Already”.
He pointed out that according to reports from international organizations, it is expected that by Wednesday, June 28, the phenomenon will become a tropical storm in front of the Lesser Antilles in the northeast of the Venezuelan coast.
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“There are models, there are forecasts. There is talk of possible trajectories, but what we are doing is keeping an eye on the evolution of the phenomenon, or maybe it will dissolve». she expressed.
He also emphasized that the probability of it being a tropical depression in the coming days is 70 percent, “it can quickly become a tropical storm and that it would later appear as a hurricane on the North Caribbean Coast of our Nicaragua and probably extended to sister Honduras. ».
On the other hand, mixing the news of the natural phenomenon with the political, the deputy dictator said that «there are those who threaten life but life prevails, because life is light, it is true, it is certainty and humanity; and that is what we all defend and protect together.”
Article 66 contacted the Observatory of Natural Phenomena (Ofena) to learn more about this natural phenomenon, however the experts are awaiting the latest report from the National Hurricane Center.
The last two powerful hurricanes that hit the North Caribbean of Nicaragua were IOTA and ETA, in 2020, which left considerable material damage and human losses.
