“UNICEF figures show that 48 percent of Laotian children are stunted. They will grow up short and probably not very smart. That comes from serious malnutrition during the first years of life.
“This should come as no surprise to the uncaring, obdurate Communist government that rules this place. Five years ago, the UN’s World Food Program carried out a major food-security study of Laotian children and found that half of them were chronically malnourished. Today, nothing has changed.”
(Laos is building a big dam on the Mekong River. Thailand will buy almost all of the electricity. Cambodia and Vietnam are not pleased with the changes on the Mekong.
(President Lyndon Johnson offered a cooperative dam construction to Ho Chi Minh as a way to end the war in Vietnam and provide electricity for all people in Southeast Asia. As fitting a a good Communist and Vietnamese nationalist, Ho didn’t reply. Had the US and South Vietnam defeated North Vietnam, people in the region would not be malnourished today.)
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/rich-regime-impoverished-children-laos?utm_source=World+Affairs+Newsletter&utm_campaign=8ea29c930d-Blog_Brinkley_Marlowe_Chang_1_17_2013&utm_medium=email
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