UN Official Visits Guatemala
UN Millennium Development Goals director Jeffrey Sachs, is visiting Guatemala Monday to learn about its food industry of a country, where 49 percent of the children under five years old suffers from chronic undernourishment.

Invited by the Food Safety Department, Sachs will have a meeting with the Ministers of Health, Finance and Education, to advise them on development measures.

The economist and author of the book The End of Poverty will visit the chorti indigenous community, which has the worst rates of human development than any other ethnic group in the country.

Guatemala currently is home to more than 46,000 chorties in Jacotan, Camotan, San Juan la Ermita and Olopa municipalities, all from the Chiquimula Eastern department, according to the latest national census.

Camotan and Jocotan villages made the headlines there a few years ago after the death of hundreds of people, most children.