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| Displacement due to the heavy rains |
This past winter Colombia, among other Latin American countries such as Costa Rica and Venezuela, suffered massive amounts of rain. Floods and landslides everywhere led to disastrous results in and around the capital Bogota and the outskirts. This is bad for the entire country. There have been road blocks, crops being destroyed, among them coffee of which Colombia is the leading exporter in Arabica beans. The rains have led to the deaths of hundreds of people and the displacement of thousands. Overall not one life in Colombia has been left unaffected by the rains for the damage that has been made is going to hit the economy very hard. According to Colombia Reports: "...84,000 hectares planted with bananas had been lost and would have to be replanted, at an estimated cost of $10 million." President Manuel Santos was recorded at a meeting of the Association of Banana Grower in Colombia saying: "We are doing everything possible to confront the revaluation of the peso compared to the dollar and the effects of the winter rains."
In the upcoming months we will all be feeling the effects of La niña when buying bananas or coffee.
