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Rodrigo Abd / AP
Marina Lopez Godinez, 3, is comforted by her mother Maria Lopez Godinez as she is measured at a health center in San Juan Atitan, Guatemala, on Wednesday. Guatemala's President Otto Perez Molina is launching on Thursday a nationwide campaign against malnutrition called "Zero Hunger," run by a new ministry dedicated to social development. In Guatemala, the chronic undernutrition rate for children under 5 is 49.8 percent, the highest in the region and the fourth highest in the world, according to the World Food Program.
Saul Martinez / EPA
Indigenous women attend a training course as midwives, at the municipality of San Juan de Atitan, one of the poorest places in the World, located at the department of Huehutenango in Guatemala on Thursday. Guatemalan president Otto Perez Molina will launch in this municipality the program 'Zero Hunger,' aimed to reduce figures of children's chronic malnutrition.
Saul Martinez / EPA
Children at the courtyard of their housing at the municipality of San Juan de Atitan in Guatemala.
Rodrigo Abd / AP
Children walk with their mothers as a soldier patrols in San Juan Atitan, Guatemala.
AP reports that Guatemala's President Otto Perez Molina is hoping to legalize drugs and reduce hunger:
"We are not doing what the United States says, we are doing what we have to do," said Perez, who was elected on promises of an "iron-fist" approach to rampant crime and surprised observers by proposing drug legalization.
Perez, a retired army general who took office one month ago, said his proposal to legalize drugs does not represent an about face from his campaign, in which he promised to get touch on crime.
He said he has always focused on a more comprehensive approach for addressing one of the highest murder rates in the world.
"Hunger is also violence, and is also a security problem," he said.
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