By Danilo Valladares
The following excerpt is from a September 11, 2009 article published by The Inter Press Service News Agency. To view the article in its entirety, please click here.
GUATEMALA CITY, Sep 11 (IPS) – The deaths of 25 children from severe malnutrition this year in Guatemala, mainly in the eastern province of Jalapa, shows that the specter of hunger is still haunting the country, aggravated by the global economic crisis and drought.
On Friday, Josette Sheeran, executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP), described the situation in Guatemala as “desperate.”
An estimated 54,000 families are suffering from food shortages in the area known as the “dry corridor” – the eastern provinces of Zacapa, Jalapa, Jutiapa, El Progreso and Chiquimula – as well as Baja Verapaz in central Guatemala and the west-central Quiché, and another 400,000 people are at risk, according to the Secretariat of Food Security and Nutrition (SESAN).
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