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This week, the U.S. State Department issued an updated travel advisory for Peru. The travel warning reiterated its Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution advisory, focusing on providing updated information regarding crime in the country.
The Colombian-Peruvian border region in Loreto and the Puno Region, which includes the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca, and the Apurimac Region, are advised against by the State Department owing to crime and unrest, respectively.
Additionally, due to crime and terrorism, the warning advises visitors to stay away from the Valley of the Apurimac, Ene, and Mantaro Rivers (VRAEM), which includes regions in the Departments of Ayacucho, Cusco, Huancavelica, and Junin.
Travelers heading to the Dominican Republic are exhorted to “exercise increased caution” by the State Department due to crime and a rise sexual assault incidents.
The agency issued a level 2 travel advisory for the Carribbean country on Tuesday, stating “violent crime, including armed robbery, homicide and sexual assault is a concern throughout the Dominican Republic.”
According to the State Department website, there have been recent reports of U.S. citizens being robbed by people they met off of dating apps in the Dominican Republic. Some of the incidents involved date rape drugs and occurred at major resorts and hotels.
Flooding from torrential rains in Haiti has left at least 42 people dead over the past couple days and dozens more missing and injured, officials said on Monday.
Over 13,600 homes are also listed as flooded.
The civil protection agency said on Twitter on Monday the death toll had risen since Sunday night after floods over the weekend hit various parts of the country, including near the capital Port-au-Prince.
The region’s Electricity Market has “as a common condition” that El Niño affects its “operation” due to the low rainwater flows that reach the “storage reservoirs”, said the director of the EOR, Nicaraguan René González.
In view of the low rainfall, according to Gonzalez, the countries set off “alarms” and some anticipated with initiatives to “supply the total demand” internally by means of purchases in the regional market.
Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean has increased by 30% since 2019, and several countries are already food insecurity hotspots.
Acute food insecurity on the planet is expected to increase by 18 points in scale and severity over the next six months, according to a new report by the Global Food Crisis Network. Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia, and Yemen are at the highest alert level. Meanwhile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua are hotspots. Thus, Latin America, specifically Central America, is facing a humanitarian hunger crisis, which will intensify the El Niño phenomenon.