It broadcasts primarily in Spanish, but there are a few hours a week in the Ch'orti' language, which is still spoken in some isolated areas.

«If 80% of the population in Guatemala lives in poverty, with that percent, I do not know what is the big fuss about this famine.

On 3 August 2001, Jocotán municipality declared yellow code in the area when it learned about the desperate situation that the rural communities were facing imminent famine; the root cause of the crisis were the short raining season, and the decline in the international coffee price.

[3] Alfonso Portillo's government decreed State of Calamity to get international help; officially, 48 deceased were reported, but there were rumors of hundreds of casualties.

Jocotán is surrounded by Chiquimula Department municipalities, except at North, where it borders Zacapa:[5]