Poverty in Mountain Region of Guerrero at 50 Year Levels After Ingrid and Manuel Angelica Enciso L. - La Jornada
go to original October 22, 2013

In many communities in the Mountain Region of Guerrero, Mexico's poorest state, the disasters caused by September's tropical storms have caused poverty to reach levels not seen for at least 50 years.

People are sleeping outside on mats under pieces of cloth supported by sticks; they no longer have wooden houses, or they are fleeing to the agricultural fields in other states. The economy is stagnant and the corn crop has been lost, said researchers Sergio Sarmiento Silva and Araceli Damián.

On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, this is the situation in the Mountain region, home of Cochoapa el Grande, the poorest municipality in Mexico, according to the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy. Instead of progress, the area has seen regression, according to experts. The region also includes five municipalities with the lowest human development index in Mexico, according to data that the United Nations Program for Development will release within days.

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