The changes sweeping through the region give rise to hopes, but also concerns.
A brief report from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate offers some statistics worth worrying over.
“The economic recession of the past few years effectively wiped out all of the gains we made in cutting child poverty in the late 1990s.”
According to one report, since June an average of 10 children under the age of 5 have died every day.