JOCOTAN, Guatemala -- The U.N. World Food Program is calling on the international community to help thousands of Guatemalans suffering hunger and malnutrition following a four month drought.
The World Food Program estimates that 65,000 people across Guatemala are suffering from life-threatening malnutrition after the drought wiped out corn, coffee and bean harvests they depended on to make ends meet. The lack of rain left more than 366,000 people malnourished across Central America.
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