date:Aug 11, 2014
hydro-electric plants.
El Salvador has lost one-tenth of its corn harvest. Guatemala estimates agricultural losses amount to $45 million, affecting 120,000 families.
Costa Rica's livestock and crop farmers have suffered losses totalling $24 million.
The water scarcity has even reached Colombia, where the cattle ranchers' federation found 30,000 dead livestock.
El Nino, which occurs every two to seven years, has clobbered Central America 10 times in the past 60 years.
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