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The CIRES, a rock band comprised of four Hayward brothers and their father, used their music to rally their community to donate supplies directly to hurricane survivors in Honduras.
(Hellena Cedeño)
What now seems like eons ago, U.S. audiences were tuned into the pivotal presidential election on Nov. 3, 2020 when images of destroyed homes started appearing online from La Lima, Honduras.
While the U.S. was caught in our own metaphorical storm, the first of two Category 4 hurricanes Eta and Iota rampaged across Latin America to end an already brutal year. What became one of the worst natural calamities of 2020 went largely unnoticed by U.S. media amid the blitz of COVID-19 wreckage and political solipsism. The two massive storms hit Central America in consecutive weeks, leaving millions of people from southern Mexico to northern Colombia in need of emergency assistance.