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El Salvador donates vaccine to desperate Honduras towns
By MARCOS ALEMAN Associated Press May 13, 2021 4:24pm Text size Copy shortlink:
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador El Salvador s president sent 34,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine to seven towns in Honduras on Thursday, responding to video pleas from their mayors posted to social media.
The small-scale diplomacy by President Nayib Bukele raised eyebrows in El Salvador and Honduras, but most people agreed that ultimately it would benefit a population in desperate need of vaccine. El Salvador has been more successful than neighboring Honduras and Guatemala in obtaining vaccine, though all lag in vaccinating their people.
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An activist from the ruling Partido Nacional (National Party) holds the identification of a woman to register on a list to receive help from the government foe the people affected by the floods caused by hurricanes Eta and Iota, in El Progreso, Honduras March 27, 2021. REUTERS/Yoseph Amaya
Reuters- Bags of rice and beans arrived in a tough neighborhood in San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ second-largest city, with government aid for poor residents struggling during a coronavirus lockdown in April 2020.
Cesar López and his hungry family got nothing. The food, he said, went only to supporters of the ruling National Party, which he opposes. He said it’s much the same for government jobs and other benefits.