120,000 Colombians die of undernourishment each year: UN .

[Judi Lynn]

120,000 Colombians die of undernourishment each year: UN .
Wednesday, 14 November 2012 06:54 Adriaan Alsema

Approximately 115,000 Colombian adults and 6,400 Colombian children die of undernourishment each year, the United Nations said.

According to the "The State of Food Insecurity in the World," a publication by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, 12.6% of the population, or six million Colombians, suffered undernourishment in the period 2010-2012.

FAO official Santiago Echeverri told RCN Radio that 14 of every 100,000 Colombian children and 250 of every 100,000 Colombian adults die because of undernourishment.

Colombia has vowed, as part of its millennium goals to combat poverty, to lower the percentage of undernourishment to below 9% in 2015. According to the U.N.'s projections, Colombia -- whose undernourishment rate slightly went up over the past five years -- will not be meeting this goal.

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/26983-120000-colombians-die-of-undernourishment-each-year-un-study.html

[Mika]

1. Showing Cuba how capitalist/exploitive "democracy' works.

Colombia infant mortality per 1000 = 18.1
Cuba infant mortality per 1000 = 5.2

[Judi Lynn]

2. In Cuba, people also don't get cut up alive for being where the death squads don't want them.

The death squads have been well known to be directly connected to the Colombian military, handling the terrorism Colombia doesn't usually want associated with its military, except for the occassions in which members of the military, all the way up to high-ranking officers have done joint sessions with the death squads in massacres of entire villages.

[flamingdem]

3. I had no idea these figures were so high, still

I was there a couple of decades ago and will never forget leaving a restaurant in a village and a group of children rushing in to grab the leftovers. I thought things had improved - but such a long way to go.