“He couldn’t feed his family. Matilde Alonso knew it was true but couldn’t believe it. The pandemic had just hit Guatemala in full force and Alonso, a 34-year-old construction worker, was suddenly jobless.
He sat up all alone till late that night, his mind racing, and fought back tears. He had six mouths to feed, no income and no hope of receiving anything beyond the most meager of crisis-support checks — some $130 — from the cash-strapped government.”
Guatemala specifically shut down its borders to make sure COVID-19 did not cause its economy problems. A relative handful ever brought or got COVID-19 because of this. People kept their jobs and plants continued to grow bountiful amounts of food, for which the climate paradise is well-known.
” People kept their jobs and plants continued to grow bountiful amounts of food, for which the climate paradise is well-known.”
Hard to starve to death in Guatemala, certainly problems with an unbalanced diet but starvation, no.