Currents Of Change In Latin America
Charles DawsonMPS
Once every seven years or so, a strange geophysical phenomenon stirs in an unseen expanse of the Pacific, and moves silently across the ocean until it hits the western shores of the Americas. It is called 'El Nio'. Its onset is initially barely noticeable, but when it comes, it makes things hot for Central and South America.
Named after the Christ child the arrival of El Nio is fabled to coincide with Christmas this strange warm ocean current seemingly appears from nowhere to displace the cool, northward-flowing Humboldt Current...