Vicente Romero
Crises Libya and Japan overshadow media to another more serious chronic crisis: hunger.
Every week a humanitarian organization cries out alarm, distress report on the situation of extreme food shortages suffered by some impoverished nation. But rarely are featured in newspapers and on television news.
Hunger is devalued by repeated news. E uncomfortable hopeless.
days ago, UNICEF claimed that 300,000 children suffering from the effects of malnutrition in Sierra Leone. The alarming figures justify offering international mobilization: one third of children in this country as punishment for war-hungry, 10 by 100 does not reach that it ought, 7 per 100 accused acute malnutrition. However, the news barely resonated.
Sierra Leone has the highest infant mortality rate highest in the world. One statistic worthy of attention, even as questionable as all those developed countries without state structures. Nobody counts the dead. Nobody tells us, either, why they die. Data are recurrent, unpleasant, useless, discarded in the daily marketing information. It seems that journalists accept the horror as something inherent to the world economic order, not realizing that our silence we made complicit in an intolerable injustice, of a massive crime.
without causing a scandal information should not be moved any rich-world government. And those 300,000 children of Sierra Leone dying, lacking the power needed, they will die or survive with severe limitations in their development. But no one knows. Hunger is a well kept secret.
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