Central America

Central America
1. Produced cochineal and indigo (modest capital, a meager labor force)
2. Cochineal bugs and indigo plants were in steady demand in European textile industries.
3. In 1850 German chemists invent aniline and other cheaper dyes.
4. Laboratory wins over nature
5. Central America starts producing coffee
6. By 1880 Central America produces almost 1/6 of the world's coffee production.
7. English -> German -> US
8. Justo Rufino Barrios.
9. The expanding cultivation of coffee discourages food-raising for the home market.
10.The Indians who work on the plantations at harvest time spend part of the year on tiny mountain plots raising the corn and beans.
11. The Latinfundio and minifundio still make up a system based on ruthless exploitation of Indian labor.
12. The structure of labor force appropriate is visibly identified with racism especially in Guatemala. (Especially in Guatemala? my ass. ALL OVER CENTRAL AMERICA + SOUTH AMERICA minus the SUGAR LANDS(here racism is reserved for the black people).. bonafide stupidity.
13. Indians suffer the internal colonialism of whites and mestizos blessed
ideologically by the dominant culture, just as Central American countries
suffer foreign colonialism.
14. Banana makes appearance in Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Rica.
15. A few railway lines are built to take coffee to the ports.
U.S. concerns took over these railroads and built others, to carry the products of their own plantations exclusively, while monopolizing electriclight, the mails, telegraph and telephone, and--a no less important public Service--politics: in Honduras a mule costs more than a deputy, and throughout
Central America U.S. ambassadors do more presiding than presidents. The
United Fruit Company swallowed up its competitors in the production and sale
of bananas and became Central America's top latifundista, while its affiliates
cornered rail and sea transport. It took over the ports and set up its own
customs and police. The dollar in effect became the national currency of
Central America.

ALWAYS DISCRIMINATING AGAINST INDIANS, ALWAYS CHASING AFTER PETTY GRINGO MONEY. LAUGHING AT THE NEIGHBOURING NATION FOR NOT HAVING U.S. ALL UP IN ITS BUTT. WHAT A WHORE OF A..



Source: Eduardo Galeano