mtrinko 's List: poverty in guatemala

• The US dollar is now accepted as legal currency.

• The police force is young,   inexperienced, and under-funded, and the judicial system is weak, overcrowded,   and inefficient. Criminals, armed with an impressive array of weapons, know   that there is little chance they will be caught and punished for their crimes.

• . American foreign aid still suffers the same problems  it did when Kennedy took office in 1961. Despite countless  reforms, foreign aid is still a failure.
• By subsidizing political irresponsibility and pernicious policies, foreign aid ill serves the world's poor.

• resource extraction

• The principal cash crops are coffee, sugar, bananas,  and cotton, followed by hemp, essential oils, and cacao.

• Women
• 13 and 30 – are being raped, tortured, mutilated, murdered, and left often in very public places. These brutal murders,
• failure of the state to address even one percent of them

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• it is a major accomplishment and demonstration of political will that the upper and middle management of all entities have embraced the evaluation process and are working eagerly to develop institutional strengthening plans based on recommendations from their assessments

• corruption
• Babies are big business there.
• The attorneys have been charged with fraud and human trafficking

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