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On Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:57:17 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

> On 7/11/2014 1:51 PM, sf wrote:
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> > Go to 33:30 and you'll see where the Fanjuls found their workers and
> > how their workers were treated. It's shameful. As a result of being
> > closely scrutinized, they mechanized sugarcane harvesting and
> > eliminated most of the work force. Where do people who were poor and
> > uneducated in their original country find work after being a sugar
> > cane harvester? They don't.
> >

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> They send their kids across the border now.


It's a long walk from Central America.

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