100,000 Hondurans Will Suffer Famine Next
Year
TEGUCIGALPA - At least 100,000 Honduran
citizens will suffer famine because of
droughts and the food crisis, a situation
worsened by the political instability after
the coup in Honduras.
A mission of the United Nations Humanitarian
Affairs Coordination Office will arrive in
Honduras in the next days for a complete
study of the effects caused by El Niño.
The investigation will determine how many
basic grain tons will not be produced
because of the lack of rain, which will be
the most affected zones and which measures
should be taken.
Coordination Office advisor Douglas Reiner
alerted on the risk of humanitarian crisis
in Central America because of the droughts
mentioning Honduras among the most affected
countries.
The situation got worse after June 28 with
the partial closing of schools and
hospitals. Some patients have not had the
right medical treatment and some children
have not received the food supply in their
respective schools.
Also, many projects fostered by the
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our
America (ALBA) were postponed in sectors
such as public health, education, energy and
agriculture.
Honduras had received 100 modern tractors,
and other equipments and instruments to
foster agriculture.
The same thing happened in the energy sector
when Petrocaribe guaranteed a supply of
20,000 daily oil barrels, with low interest
rates.
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