Sandinistas Wage a New War - Against Hunger

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ruh roh. feeding the hungry. we can't be having that shit in our sphere of influnce. those latin americans are just getting too uppity and too big for their britches.
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**NICARAGUA:
Sandinistas Wage a New War - Against Hunger

José Adán Silva

MANAGUA, Mar 29 (IPS) - With the support of international cooperation, the Nicaraguan government is preparing to launch an all-out offensive against hunger, as part of an ambitious plan to help the rural poor achieve food sufficiency.

Of the country's 5.4 million people, 46 percent -- or 2.4 million -- were living below the official poverty line in 2005. Of that 2.5 million, 1.7 million lived in rural areas, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Orlando Núñez, director of the Zero Hunger Programme to be launched in May by the government of Sandinista President Daniel Ortega, said the initial cost would be 50 million dollars.

The money will partly come from public funds that would have gone towards servicing the foreign debt but were freed up by the recent Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) decision to cancel Nicaragua's debt.

The programme will also be financed by money from donor countries, United Nations agencies like the World Food Programme (WFP), and the World Bank.
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1. OMG, Commies feeding the hungry, oh the humanity.