Claudia Faviola Gonzales, a three-year-old girl, eats a tortilla with salt at her home, in La Palmilla, Guatemala October 7, 2020. REUTERS/Josue Decavele
JOCOTAN, Guatemala (Reuters) - The back-to-back hurricanes destroyed a small patch of corn that helped Tomasa Mendoza feed her five children in a tiny hamlet nestled in the impoverished mountains of eastern Guatemala.
Even before the storms buried her crop in mud last month, Mendoza's husband hadn't worked for months after day-laboring coffee plantation jobs dried up during the coronavirus pandemic.
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