Hunger quadrupled in an epidemic year in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras

In just one pandemic year, eight million people live in a situation of food insecurity in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, according to data from the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).

The executive director of the World Food Program (WFP), David Beasley, spoke of “the dramatic figures” of food insecurity that “were exacerbated by the pandemic.” A year ago this region registered 2,000,000 people in this condition and today there are more than 8,000,000.

Nearly 8 million people in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua are food insecure.

Many people previously untouched by hunger are now skipping meals or cutting down portions. Some have been forced to migrate to cities or abroad, desperate to earn a living. 🎥👇 pic.twitter.com/odES6uPGyL

— World Food Programme (@WFP) April 21, 2021

“The number of people, as we would say, marching towards hunger, has quadrupled in just one year,” said David Beasley this Wednesday, April 21, 2021.

In addition, the PMA director warned that if something is not done to feed and care for Central Americans, “you could see millions heading to the United States border.”

People who said they were willing to migrate to the United States had risen from 7-8 percent to 15-16 percent, according to WFP surveys.

Source: Telesur