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Love pounds, tons of inequities
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Dr E Espinoza
Final 25 Avenida Norte y Boulevard de Los Héroes Edificio de la Rectoría, San Salvador, El Salvador; espinoza@telesal.net
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News1 alerted to El Salvador in 2004: in four decades young people died for the first time by hunger. It was an announced death: the undernutrition, re-emergent disease is a direct consequence of the neoliberal era, and has deepened. The suppression of the agricultural subsidies annihilated food security and the subsistence cultures of poor farmers. The minimum wage was frozen to compete with low production costs, in the globalised market of the textile manufacturing. An economy dominated by dollars and an increasing cost of the basic basket, especially foods, completed the picture. These factors featured heavily in a report of the Office of the Judge Advocate General for the Defence of the Human Rights.2 The answer: an assisted programme of nutritional consultation and food distribution called "Pounds of love".3 But the inequities, exacerbated by unequal international trade relations, unjust distribution of the wealth, unemployment, payments in the public health system,
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