FILE PHOTO: A woman and her children walk by young seedlings of pine at a greenhouse as part of a farming program backed by U.S. Aid, in the small village of Xecachelaj, Santa Maria Chiquimula, Guatemala April 3, 2019. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria
SANTA MARIA CHIQUIMULA, Guatemala (Reuters) - After a U.S.-funded programme gave Guatemalan farmer Rigoberto Leon and his neighbours tools to plant new crops like tomatoes and chile peppers, many of them stayed to live off their drought-prone lands even as droves of villagers left for the United States.
More programmes like the climate change adaptation scheme backed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) that helped Leon are in jeopardy after U.S. President Donald Trump said he will end Washington's aid to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. He has accused the Central American countries of failing to halt an influx of migrants to the United States.
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