Ringo
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In the Dominican Republic, only illegal Haitians work on sugar cane plantations, because life is even more terrible in Haiti itself.
And this work (and life) is little better than what it was a few hundred years ago, when working on sugar plantations was no different from the death camps of Nazi Germany.
Only 4% of Blacks from Africa came to the United States. 40% went to Brazil. The remaining 45% ended their lives on the Caribbean islands. But where are the huge number of heirs of these people? There are none, because the slaves on the sugar plantations of the Caribbean islands have left no heirs. They were destroyed during the production of sugar, which in the 16th and 17th century was more profitable than the production of cocaine and heroin today. Their life expectancy was about 2 years.
A few hundred years later, when morally and legally such a slaveholding attitude towards workers would seem to be simply impossible, in the Dominican Republic it flourishes in the production of sugar from cane. There people have no shoes, beds, dirt floors in infinitely poor terrible shacks. Until recently, their only hope for anything was charitable organizations, foreign and Dominican (mostly Christian).
But just a month ago, the largest buyer of cane sugar - the United States - at the legislative level banned such purchases from the strongest producers in the Dominican Republic until they radically change the organization of labor on plantations and, accordingly, will not pay for such work. Until now, the average level of payment for a ton of felled cane was $ 12-15. How many tons do you think a person can cut down manually with a machete? And yes, a few decades ago, Dominican companies were offered to purchase combines for harvesting cane - they have long existed and are successfully used in the same Cuba and in other cane sugar producing countries. However, the Dominican manufacturers refused to do this. In the best traditions of slavery, they found it cheaper for them to use the manual labor of Haitians. By the way, in this regard, one can imagine how terrible life in Haiti is (and it is terrible ) if such slavery actually turns out to be better.
And when some idiots curse Castro, think about the fact that sugar cane was the main production in Cuba and Cuba was the "sugar bowl" of the USA.
Capitalism is a machine of death.
And this work (and life) is little better than what it was a few hundred years ago, when working on sugar plantations was no different from the death camps of Nazi Germany.
Only 4% of Blacks from Africa came to the United States. 40% went to Brazil. The remaining 45% ended their lives on the Caribbean islands. But where are the huge number of heirs of these people? There are none, because the slaves on the sugar plantations of the Caribbean islands have left no heirs. They were destroyed during the production of sugar, which in the 16th and 17th century was more profitable than the production of cocaine and heroin today. Their life expectancy was about 2 years.
A few hundred years later, when morally and legally such a slaveholding attitude towards workers would seem to be simply impossible, in the Dominican Republic it flourishes in the production of sugar from cane. There people have no shoes, beds, dirt floors in infinitely poor terrible shacks. Until recently, their only hope for anything was charitable organizations, foreign and Dominican (mostly Christian).
But just a month ago, the largest buyer of cane sugar - the United States - at the legislative level banned such purchases from the strongest producers in the Dominican Republic until they radically change the organization of labor on plantations and, accordingly, will not pay for such work. Until now, the average level of payment for a ton of felled cane was $ 12-15. How many tons do you think a person can cut down manually with a machete? And yes, a few decades ago, Dominican companies were offered to purchase combines for harvesting cane - they have long existed and are successfully used in the same Cuba and in other cane sugar producing countries. However, the Dominican manufacturers refused to do this. In the best traditions of slavery, they found it cheaper for them to use the manual labor of Haitians. By the way, in this regard, one can imagine how terrible life in Haiti is (and it is terrible ) if such slavery actually turns out to be better.
And when some idiots curse Castro, think about the fact that sugar cane was the main production in Cuba and Cuba was the "sugar bowl" of the USA.
Capitalism is a machine of death.
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