It saddens me to give this news about my country, which, although it stuck its nose to life after the last crisis, the repercussions of its effects can still be felt.
Four hundred children will march 1,700 km (not to say little) from Puerto Iguazú, a city on the border with Paraguay and Brazil.
They will travel five provinces until they reach the Federal Capital to denounce child malnutrition from which dozens of children under five die.
The motto of the march is "Hunger is a crime" and they ask that one more child not die because of the misery in which many areas of the country are plunged.
Because we are going to say that one reality is the Federal Capital and another very different from other areas of the country.
Without going any further, an investigation by the Regional Institute of Medicine of the Universidad del Nordeste denounced that “45% of children in the capital city of the province of Corrientes are malnourished”.
It is paradoxical that in Europe we talk about childhood obesity while in some countries children die of hunger.
It seems that we were not talking about Argentina, but yes. A country with thousands of possibilities but with an impossible cancer to eradicate: the corruption of the rulers.
As the organizers of the march say “in our country there is no lack of wealth, food, dishes, mothers, doctors, or teachers. However, there is a lack of political will, institutional imagination, cultural understanding and the desire to build a society of similar ".
Unfortunately, we are talking about children, about the future of a country that I hope one day can lift its head completely.
