Hunger Plagues Indigenous Community in N Mexico

Widespread hunger strikes indigenous Tarahumara following historic drought

The worst recorded drought in Mexico’s history has severely affected more than 2.5 million people, destroying about 1 million hectares (2.47 million acres) of cropland in 7 northern states.

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• Chihuahua State, Mexico. The worst recorded drought in more than 70 years has severely affected 2.5 million people, destroying about 1 million hectares (2.47 million acres) of cropland in 7 northern states.
  • The worst affected people are the Tarahumara (Rarámuri).
  • An estimated 60,000 Tarahumara have been impacted and 90 percent of the local bean crop has failed.
  • The Organized Front of Indigenous Organizations earlier reported that community members were committing suicide because they were unable to feed their children.
  • “The indigenous women, when they don´t have anything to feed their children for four or five days, get very sad and that sadness is so great that up to the end of December [2011], 50 men and women threw themselves off cliffs … or hanged themselves,” said the group´s director Ramón Gardea.
  • The Interior Ministry has denied reports of mass suicides among the Tarahumara communities.
  • The Mexican Red Cross said the widespread hunger was a “food emergency.”

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