Catastrophe in our neighbour, Nicaragua Excellent!Very GoodGoodFairPoor Rating: 5 / 5 (2 votes)   Posted: 07/09/2007 - 09:18 AM Author: Evan X Hyde “The storm developed quickly and Nicaragua posted a hurricane warning less than 24 hours before the storm hit the coast.” – Bayardo Mendoza of the Associated Press reporting on Thursday, September 6, 3:31 p.m. (EST)   “About 11,000 Miskito Indians in the isolated region did not evacuate in advance of the storm.”   “Casualty reports have yet to come from at least 70 percent of villages and towns along Nicaragua’s swampy jungle coast where Felix slammed ashore with 160 mph winds on Tuesday, said disaster official Jorge Ramon Arnesto Soza.”   “The United Nations’ World Food Program said in a statement that the hurricane ripped the roof off a hotel where the staff was staying and destroyed a food aid warehouse.” – CNN on Thursday, September 6, 5:30 p.m. (EST)   Nicaragua is not like Belize. It is a full-fledged oligarchy, and has been so for centuries. What this means is that the rich are like gods, and the poor are like cattle.     It sounds like hundreds, and maybe thousands of people died in Nicaragua on Tuesday morning. Nicaragua was not prepared for Hurricane Felix. But the rich didn’t need to be prepared. Only the poor died on Tuesday in Nicaragua.   The reason the details of the catastrophe are only just now beginning to emerge, is because of what you saw on Belize television news on Tuesday evening. The American television reporters were all in Belize City hotels waiting for Felix to mash up The Jewel.   We Belizeans should grieve for our brothers and sisters in Nicaragua. This is the home of what we Belizeans used to call the “Waika”. The masses of the Nicaraguan people are very similar to us in DNA. It’s just colonial borders that separate us. Think about it, and do something for Nicaragua. Tuesday’s catastrophe was enormous.