AGP Executive Report
Last update: 7 hours agoEl Niño impacts on children: UNICEF says 25.8 million children across Latin America and the Caribbean face growing risks from droughts and flooding tied to a record-strong El Niño, with Central America—including Nicaragua—seeing harvest strain that can worsen malnutrition and safe-water access. Climate risk ahead: A separate report warns the super-strength El Niño could disrupt supply chains, commodity output, and infrastructure across the region, with drought pressures in parts of Central America and rising flood risks elsewhere. Whale protection setback: A bid to create a South Atlantic whale sanctuary failed again at the International Whaling Commission, with Nicaragua among the countries voting against—highlighting how climate change and pollution are intensifying threats to whales and other cetaceans. Nicaragua media shift: Russia’s RT en Español has started free-to-air broadcasting in Nicaragua on UHF channel 31, expanding Moscow’s media reach as the Ortega administration tightens control over dissent and the press.
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