1.For a long time Venezuela was identified with cacao, a native South American
plant.
2.In 1873, a coffee era begins in Venezuela. this competition, cacao continues to expand, invading the humid lands of Carupano. Venezuela remained an agricultural country condemned to the cyclical rise and fall of coffee and cacao prices
-the two products created the capital that enabled landlords, merchants, and
moneylenders to live as wasteful parasites.
3.In 1922, the country suddenly becomes a fountain of oil, and oil has
reigned without interruption ever since.
4.The last decades of the nineteenth century marked the rise of European and
U.S. gluttony for chocolate.
5.The industry's progress lent great impetus to Brazilian cacao and to production in the old Venezuelan and Ecuadorean plantations.
5. Sugar cities turn into Cacao/rubber capital.
6. Cacao is monoculture like sugarcane. - the burning of forests, the dictatorship of international prices, and perpetual penury for the workers.
7. Brazil becomes the biggest international cacao market. But Africa offers serious competition.
8. By the 1920s, the Gold Coast becomes the biggest world cacao supplier.
(The British develops cacao plantations in their colony on a large scale)
9. Brazil falls back to second place.
10. Brazil falls back to third place.
11. The fertile lands of Southern Bahia become mediocre.
12.Chocolate consumption grew, and with it prices and profits.
13. The port of Ilheus becomes the queen of the South. (because of the cacao of course) -> I will look into this later.
Jorge Amado said
"Ilheus and the cacao zone swam in gold, bathed in champagne, slept with French ladies from Rio de Janeiro. At the Trianon, the city's, most chic cabaret, Colonel Maneca Dantas lit cigarettes with 500,000-reis bills, repeating the gesture of all the country's rich fazendeiros during the previous
rises in coffee, rubber, cotton, and sugar prices."
14. from 1959 to 1961 international price of the Brazilian cacao bean falls by one third.
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