Tag: Miguel Barreto Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the World Food Program (WPF)

• Thursday, August 24th 2017 - 07:25 UTC

  Hunger, one of the main causes of migration to U.S. from the “Dry Corridor”

  

  A new report presented at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) finds that migration from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to the United States is motivated in large part by poverty and hunger, aggravated by drought conditions associated with the El Niño phenomenon that began in 2014.