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Caribbean & Central America - March 2012 (ISSN 1741-4458)
GUATEMALA: Pérez Molina makes good another promise
Last month Guatemala’s President Otto Pérez Molina launched ‘Hambre Cero’ (Zero Hunger), a major Q$2bn (US$260m) plan to tackle malnutrition which, along with security, remains the other key priority for his new right-wing Partido Patriota (PP) government. While once again appearing to signal continuity with the anti-poverty efforts of his predecessor, the centre-left Alvaro Colom (2008-2012), and attracting plaudits from the international community, the initiative nonetheless has left Pérez Molina open to the same criticism which befell his predecessor - without structural reform, particularly in relation to land ownership distribution, any changes are unlikely to prove sustainable.
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