Saturday 12 February 2011
In Honduras, 800,000 Malnourished Children
Tegucigalpa - About 800,000 Honduran children suffer from chronic malnutrition, according to the UN World Food Program (WFP).
The WFP described as alarming the number of families without access to basic foods in this Central American nation, where seven of every 10 people live in poverty.
"A country in which 27 percent of its children suffer chronic malnutrition is not only a problem of development but also of security," said WFP representative Miguel Barreto in statements published in the newspaper El Heraldo.
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However, campesino organizations such as Plataforma Agraria warned that the problems in Honduras have their roots in the unfair distribution of wealth.
In this country one percent of producers control one-third of the best land, while 375 small farmers have no place to plant.
More:
http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2011/february/12/centralamerica11021202.htm(The author forgets to mention almost all the land has been taken by only a few wealthy business people who use the police to terrorize, in every way possible, the Hondurans attempting to live and plant on the land the government gave to them during the last few years.)