Guatemala Declares 'State Of Public Calamity' from Drought, Food Shortages
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"Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared 'a state of public calamity' late Tuesday to help mobilize funds and resources to confront a food shortage that will affect thousands of families," the Associated Press reports (9/9).
During a nationally televised address, Colom said the declaration "will help us access resources from the international community" and will expedite the mobilization of national resources, making it easier to get food to the families who are in dire need, according to CNN. He "said the nation's food problems are the result of a drought this year, global warming and the effects of the international economic crisis. He also cited the Central American nation's 'history of unfairness that has made Guatemala live since long ago with high and shameful poverty levels, extreme poverty and undernutrition,'" CNN writes (9/9).
During a nationally televised address, Colom said the declaration "will help us access resources from the international community" and will expedite the mobilization of national resources, making it easier to get food to the families who are in dire need, according to CNN. He "said the nation's food problems are the result of a drought this year, global warming and the effects of the international economic crisis. He also cited the Central American nation's 'history of unfairness that has made Guatemala live since long ago with high and shameful poverty levels, extreme poverty and undernutrition,'" CNN writes (9/9).
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