One in seven Latin American children threatened by El Niño: ‘This crisis can be mitigated’
A UNICEF report shows how droughts and floods threaten access to food, water, and education for more than 25 million children. Central America and the Caribbean are the regions of greatest concern
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This is the driest year on record in Tegucigalpa. Eighty percent of Honduran territory is on red alert, and the capital has had a potable water rationing system every 12 days for a month. The lack of rain is making maize and bean crops in Guatemala — the main food source in a country with the region’s highest rate of chronic child malnutrition — even more vulnerable. The Panama Canal has begun restricting vessel traffic because of water stress in the basin, and the parched Amazon rivers are isolating dozens of riverside communities in Brazil and hampering fishermen’s work.
