It's not every day that the ambassadors for Russia, Taiwan, Cuba and Nicaragua eat a local lunch with Alvaro Colom and his wife in one of Guatemala's poorest towns. But yesterday saw the diplomatic train descend on Escuintla for the inauguration of Guatemala's fifth 'comedor solidario', a subsidised canteen funded under the Government's Social Cohesion programme.
Colom's dining partners were carefully chosen to demonstrate Guatemala's unity with the represented countries and their socialist agendas.
The comedor has the capacity to serve between five hundred and a thousand people a day. Prices will range from 1 Quetzal for a breakfast (10 pence) and 3 Quetzales for lunch (30 pence) - the average price for a midday meal in a similar comedor is 10 Quetzales (one pound). This social initiative will be welcome news for residents of the department, which suffers among the highest rates of malnutrition in the country.
Read the original source: Prensalibre.com
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