An example of this are the intense tropical rains that hit the country last week. Activists of environmental organization CESTA-Friends of
the Earth El Salvador, said in a press conference that the country has been declared by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) as the world’s most vulnerable country to climate change.

The information was ratified by activists Jose Acosta and Edith Campos in a press conference with local media on Monday.

The members of CESTA-Friends of the Earth underlined the impact that these storms have had on food production and that consequently the climate phenomena ends up being a synonym of poverty and destruction of resources.

They also warned that climate change will worsen in the coming years and that drastic action will be needed, especially in order to change the long-term development model after years of neoliberal policies that put us where we are today.

“95% of the country’s population lives in 90% of the territory considered vulnerable, while 70% of the Salvadorean houses are not apt to olive because they fail to meet the safety standards”-

The Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Herman Rosa Chávez, said that the natural phenomenon suffered by the country “hit historical records” and he confirmed that in some areas it rained more than a thousand millimetres, more than the amount caused by hurricane Mitch in 1998.