JocotánRain stopped on 10 June, and the maize never ripened.
Without a harvest, families lose their ancestors’ native seed, and health workers report anxiety and hopelessness.
El Niño’s drought, worsened by climate change, hit the Dry Corridor of Guatemala and Honduras, emptying Lenca and Ch’orti’ cobs.
These families have no saved seed to plant next year.
How each outlet framed it
- Contracorriente leans critical
- foregrounds the mental-health toll, citing health professionals on sadness and anxiety alongside lost Lenca and Ch'orti' subsistence maize seed
Sources: Contracorriente