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Posted Wed Feb 1 2012: from New York Times:
Food Crisis as Drought and Cold Hit Mexico http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1328108388
A drought that a government official called the most severe Mexico had ever faced has left two million people without access to water and, coupled with a cold snap, has devastated cropland in nearly half of the country.... While the authorities say they expect the situation to worsen, one of the five worst-affected states, Zacatecas, got a reprieve on Sunday. Heriberto Felix Guerra, head of the Ministry of Social Development, saw the rain, the first in 17 months, as a guardedly reassuring sign....
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