Mexico, from a society with malnutrition to one with obesity – #MexFacts
March 13, 2013
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National Crusade Against Hunger is Branded as “electioneering” (Spanish)
March 7, 2013
Proceso, 3/6/2013
The head of the Ministry of Social Development Rosario Robles scuffled with opposition legislators who assured that the National Crusade Against Hunger is just electioneering strategy from the PRI.
In response, Robles promised that the program will not be used to garner votes for the PRI in the upcoming elections.
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Surviving with $15 pesos (Spanish)
February 22, 2013
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La Jornada, 2/22/2013
Maria Martinez’s sunken eyes and wrinkled skin make her seem more than 50 years old. In Mixtec, she explains that she does not remember when she was born; meanwhile, the nurse revises her records clarifies the doubt: Maria is 35 years and the baby she carries in her arms is her seventh child.
Like her, many families live with 10 or 15 pesos a day (one quarter of the minimum wage)with which they can only afford pasta, beans and, if revenues improve, chicken or beef every 15 or 30 days. “A chicken costs 80 or 90 pesos, and I can’t afford it,” says Maria.
Even though 300 families receive some aid, malnutrition, remoteness, lack of education, and unemployment keep them in the geography of poverty.
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Food goes to waste despite hunger (Spanish)
February 11, 2013
Reforma, 2/11/2013
En México se destruyen alrededor de 4.2 millones de toneladas de comida al año que podrían servir para alimentar a unos 33 millones de personas.
Paradójicamente, la Cruzada Nacional contra el Hambre, puesta en marcha el mes pasado por el Gobierno federal, tiene como meta sacar del nivel de pobreza alimentaria extrema a 7.4 millones de mexicanos en 400 municipios
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As he takes office, Mexico’s president pledges to expand prosperity-Mexico Institute in the news
December 5, 2012Dallas Morning News, 12/03/2012
Enrique Peña Nieto
Enrique Peña Nieto became the president of Mexico on Saturday and outlined an ambitious plan to transform it into a middle-class society by taking on powerful monopolies and unions and reducing poverty, hunger and violence. “We are a nation that grows at two speeds,” Peña Nieto said.
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