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Guatemala's president declares a "state of public calamity" as thousands of families face severe food shortages.

This year, Guatemala is facing an extreme food shortage. 25 children have already died from starvation, and millions of communities are at risk for malnutrition. The UN Food Program has distributed nutritional biscuits to the most affected areas. The food shortage was brought on my drought which led crops to failure. This adds to the extreme figures of malnutrition, which almost half of Guatemala's children suffer from.

Guatemala has been struggling with a food shortage, which was declared "a state of calamity" on Tuesday. Thousands of families are extremely short of food due to the weather conditions. The government estimated about 400,000 families who are suffering, but hopefully with the 20 tons of nutritional cookies that the World Food Program distributes, the families will pull out of this calamity.

An aid worker from the the UN's World Food Programme describes the severe food shortages that have hit Guatemala.

This article evaluates the severity of the current food shortage throughout Guatemala. This is a critical situation for the people of Guatemala. This "diary" investigates a few specific cases in which people (sometimes young infants) have become medically ill due to the lack of food.

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared "a state of public calamity" late Tuesday to help mobilize funds and resources to confront a food shortage that will affect thousands of families.