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About 8.6 million people living in rural areas in the Pacific Coast regions of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala, and in west-central Honduras, are suffering from hunger and malnutrition as a result of recent droughts, according to a report released in San Jose, Costa Rica, last week. The UN World Food Program (WFP) report called the strip a "drought corridor."
The number of people affected represents about one quarter of Central America's 35 million inhabitants. Of those affected, 2.6 million live in Nicaragua, 2.5 million in Guatemala, 2.2 million in Honduras, and 1.2 million in El Salvador. Dry conditions that destroyed crops during the last year, together with the effects of other natural disasters, have left them, said the report, "without anything to plant, nothing to eat, and nothing to sell." Those other disasters include Hurricane Mitch in 1998, widespread unemployment from the collapse of international coffee prices, and earthquakes in El Salvador in 2001.
"This is converting Central America into a region...
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