Honduras Puts 75 Municipalities on Red Alert Over Drought

Crops are failing and livestock are dying of thirst. The president says the crisis will run into March or April next year.

The Honduran government on Wednesday placed 80 percent of the country, including the capital, on drought alert as El Nino scorches harvests and causes livestock to die of thirst.Honduras places 80% of country on El Nino drought alertThe El Nino weather pattern warms surface temperatures in the central and eastern equat