Jutiapa Department

Guatemala: Donations urgently needed to respond to food crisis - WFP

Source: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Informe_completo (pdf* format - The Guatemalan Government appealed for international assistance, following a declaration of a "State of National Calamity" on September 9th. -...

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Guatemala: Food insecurity likely to worsen in coming months

Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Full_Report (pdf* format - 59.7 Kbytes) This report was issued by OCHA ROLAC based on information provided by official partners. The Government...

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Guatemala: Food insecurity exacerbated by crop losses, global economic crisis

Source: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Full_Report (pdf* format - BACKGROUND The number of children affected by severe acute undernutrition, arriving at the national hospital of Jalapa, has increased to 91 since...

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Delfina De La Luz Mayorga Martinez : Guatemala

0 of $875 raised. Started raising funds on Jul 17, 2009 Delfina was born in Agua Blanca Jutiapa on October 12, 1958 and is 50 years old. She has 5 children – 4 sons and 1 daughter. The oldest is 30 years old, while the youngest...

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GUATEMALA: Relentless Devastation of Mangroves

GUATEMALA CITY, Jul 16 (Tierramérica) - "This place used to be beautiful. It was truly a mangrove forest. When the shrimp farmers arrived, we lost 60 percent of it because of the logging," said Francisco Vásquez, manager of a...

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Violence out of control in Guatemala

Guatemala, no longer a killing field of the Cold War, has become of a land of unimpeded violence seemingly immune to justice. Deadly violence appears to be a daily occurrence in Guatemala, where even the president of the small...

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