COVID-19: UN agencies warn against rising hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean
The number of people in Latin America and the Caribbean living in extreme poverty could surpass 83 million this year due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to a significant rise in hunger, according to a UN report released on 16 June 2020 on Preventing the COVID-19 crisis from becoming a food crisis: Urgent […]
Food Doesn’t Grow Here Anymore
NENTÓN, Guatemala — To understand why President Trump’s new sanctions and other flailing to end Central American immigration aren’t working, step into the dark, melancholy hovel of Ana Jorge Jorge. She lives in Guatemala’s western highlands in the hillside village of Canquintic, near the town of Nentón, and she’s a widow because of the American […]
