The following excerpt is from a January 26, 2010 article published by The Latin American Herald Tribune. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
GUATEMALA CITY – The Guatemalan government will invest some 1.7 billion quetzales ($203 million) in 2001 [sic] to guarantee the country’s food security, officials said on Tuesday.
Several regions of Guatemala, especially the “dry corridor” in the east, were seriously affected in 2009 by a prolonged drought that caused the deaths of at least 54 children and affected 54,000 poor families.
The “Guatemala sin Hambre” (Guatemala Without Hunger) program, according to the secretary for Food and Nutritional Security, Lily Caravantes, will be directed by the Social Cohesion Council, presided over by first lady Sandra Torres de Colom.
Click here to read the rest of this article, or here to read more about the 2009/10 Food Crisis.
To link to the website (in Spanish) of Guatemala sin hambre, click here.
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