The hurricane is estimated to have killed at least 7,000 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
Authorities estimate that the entire country was damaged to some degree by the storm.
Fully 70 percent of Honduras' agriculture was wiped out. Countless roads, bridges, and villages either were swept away by flood waters or engulfed in mudslides. Officials at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said that if the 7,000 deaths are confirmed, Mitch would rank as the sixth most destructive Atlantic hurricane in history. There are corpses everywhere, victims of the landslides or of the waters. And the number of deaths will rise as we manage to reach isolated places.