The problem with chronic hunger is it is growing around the world, but it is especially severe in Latin American and the Caribbean where 53 million people face food insecurity and 40 percent of the region’s population lives in poverty. Latin America faces the largest wealth inequality in the world and has experienced some of the worst effects of neo-liberal restructuring and the insistent destruction of ‘free’-trade globalization. Through actions that Naomi Klein refers to as ‘shock therapy’, Latin America has seen its democratically elected leaders undermined or overthrown, its social policies eviscerated, and its economies plunged into a tailspin of instability.

  Ambassador Heraldo Munoz of the Permanent Mission of Chile to the United Nations continues to work tirelessly to raise relief funds for earthquake disaster victims in Chile. He and the Gabriela Mistral Foundation have found innovative ways to raise funds for their countrymen in the wake of the natural disasters that devastated the country. [...]