Guatemala received the aid promised by El Salvador to address the emergency generated by Tropical Storm Eta.
“Thank you, Salvadoran brothers,” the Guatemalan Tax Administration Superintendency posted on the social network Twitter.
According to information from the entity in charge of tax collection in Guatemala, this Monday (09.11.2020) SAT's San Cristóbal Customs entered, 48 means of transport with 30.000 food packages to address the emergency generated by Eta.
La SAT activated a protocol for donations from Central American countries can be processed quickly.
In addition to In a coordinated manner, the Customs Office of Guatemala and the General Directorate of Customs of El Salvador, together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (CONRED), the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance and the National Police of Guatemala They managed the entry of humanitarian aid.
According to information from the Central American Integration System (SICA), the phenomenon left 3 million people affected in its passage through Central America, mainly in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala.
Eta made landfall in Nicaragua on Tuesday, November 3, in the form of a powerful hurricane and, after arriving in Honduras as a tropical depression, finally left Central America on Friday, although it has left hundreds missing and at least 27 dead in Guatemala, 25 in Honduras and another XNUMX in El Salvador.
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