{"id":8147,"date":"2021-01-14T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/?p=8147"},"modified":"2021-02-09T03:28:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T11:28:58","slug":"when-will-you-deal-with-malnutrition-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/economy\/food-security\/when-will-you-deal-with-malnutrition-mr-president\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"When will you deal with malnutrition, Mr. President?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By EntreMundos<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYesmin died this Monday\u2019s early morning. Being only 2 years old, a pneumonia caused by malnutrition ended with her life in eastern Guatemala. During the last weeks, she fought to gain weight, but the sequels of her premature birth, her bad nutrition and her home\u2019s condition weakened her\u201d. With this note, the EFE news agency reports only one of the many cases of the situation of boys and girls in Guatemala, a country where, having fertile land and a diversity of climates (and therefore food), it ashames that children die from malnutrition.<\/p>\n

A few hours later the note was published, not only the EFE agency but in other national and international newspapers, the Guatemala government announced in their website the launch of NutriNi\u00f1o, a social program with the ambitious goal to support 200 thousand kids from 10 departments. Numbers go, numbers come and the things look the same as last year, when the government stayed silent in front of the budget reduction to combat malnutrition in the middle of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

As if that was not enough, Vox Populi published on January 5 an investigation about the president\u2019s entire robust culinary team, (according to SAAS records, which includes:<\/p>\n