Placencia
was hit hard by Hurricane Iris in 2001.
Ten years later there are still some
reminders of
the 95% devastation, such as this roofless
shack
and a number of stripped bare concrete
pads, but
for the most part it's undergoing rapid
development.
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On my
second day here a freak storm blew tons of
plastic refuse onto the beach, a
salty garbage soup.
Local residents blame Honduras and
Guatemala,
where they claim it's normal to dump trash
into
rivers which then empty into Caribbean
Sea.
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