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El gráfico muestra las cifras de personas que podrían sufrir de inseguridad alimentaria grave en América Latina y el Caribe en 2020.
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Millones en riesgo de inseguridad alimentaria grave por Covid-19 en América Latina y el Caribe

May 28, 2020 - El Programa Mundial de Alimentos de ONU advierte que aproximadamente 14 millones de personas podrían sufrir hambre en América Latina y el Caribe en 2020 debido al impacto de la pandemia de coronavirus.

New projections released late Wednesday estimate a startling increase: Whereas 3.4 million experienced severe food insecurity in 2019, that number could more than quadruple this year in one of the world’s most vulnerable regions.

The number of people going hungry is likely to be higher than the UN projection, which only takes into account numbers in the 11 countries where the organisation operates. The estimate does not include, for example, Venezuela, where one in every three people faced hunger last year, according to the food agency’s 2019 study.

The escalating hunger comes as the Covid-19 pandemic increasingly ravages Latin America. Brazil now ranks second globally in the number of coronavirus infections, behind the U.S., and rising levels in Peru, Chile, Mexico and elsewhere are stretching hospitals thin, increasingly in poor urban and remote rural communities.

Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to see a 5.3 percent economic contraction this year, possibly a sharper drop than during the Great Depression. That downturn comes after seven years of low growth averaging less than 0.5 percent.

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PUBLISHED: 28/05/2020; STORY: Graphic News
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