COFFEE CRISIS CAUSES DEATHS.At least 21 Nicaraguans have died from hunger and malnutrition malnutrition, insufficiency of one or more nutritional elements necessary for health and well-being. Primary malnutrition is caused by the lack of essential foodstuffs—usually vitamins, minerals, or proteins—in the diet. since June, including 11 children under the age of four, because of the nation's coffee crisis, reports Reuters Reuters British cooperative news agency. Founded in 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter, it was initially concerned with commercial news but began to serve a growing newspaper clientele after the London Morning Advertiser subscribed in 1858. (Oct. 7, 2002). For a second straight year, Central American Central America A region of southern North America extending from the southern border of Mexico to the northern border of Colombia. It separates the Caribbean Sea from the Pacific Ocean and is linked to South America by the Isthmus of Panama. coffee workers and their families are starving starve v. starved, starv·ing, starves v.intr. 1. To suffer or die from extreme or prolonged lack of food. 2. Informal To be hungry. 3. To suffer from deprivation. as plummeting world prices for coffee beans coffee bean see sesbania. have caused the closure of farms and left unemployed pickers begging for food and aid. Nicaragua has been one of the hardest hit; an estimated 30,000 full-time coffee workers are without jobs. Since June, thousands of unemployed coffee sector workers have set up temporary protest sites on roads in traditional coffee zones, demanding the government create them jobs and give them food and medicine. In early September, the national child welfare director Emilio Lopez said at least 14 people had died because of the grave conditions caused by their lack of work and money to pay for food. The death toll has now risen to 21, Lopez said. Copyright 2002 |
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