Rising food prices hurting Guatemala’s poor - 06 May 2008

Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports on Guatemala, a country in Latin America most affected by rising food prices and inflation.

A large number of Guatemalans live at or below the poverty line. Officials there worry that people who barely managed to afford food before are now going hungry.

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