The following excerpt is from a November 26, 2009 article from the Miami Herald. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
The U.S. has begun delivering food to Guatemalans suffering through a long drought.
By EZRA FIESER
Special to The Miami Herald
EL MOJON CHIQUIMULA, Guatemala — Nine-year-old Lide Ramirez and her little brother sat on an 18-pound bag of rice on a recent sunny morning, thinking that for the first time in months they would eat dinner.
“We usually have just some beans with a tortilla,” Lide said, guarding the bag of U.S.-donated white rice as if it were filled with gold. “On Sundays, we get to eat breakfast, too. But usually it’s just once at lunch.”
The rice was part of the U.S. government’s first distribution of food to families struggling through the country’s worst drought in three decades.
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