Caribbean coral reef racing towards collapse
The Caribbean coral reefs on rapid decline since the 1970s. ...
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In 1934, under Jorge Ubico Casteñada, a vagrancy law was commissioned in Guatemala forcing 150 eight hour days of farming on all workers as a minimum. It provided seemingly endless labor to enrich American landowners and started something in Guatemala similar to sharecropping, with the farmers making the minimum profit and landowners getting rich. At this point, United Fruit began to climb to it’s peak. In ...
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Award-winning film about the cholera outbreak in Haiti ...
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Haiti is very slowly picking itself back up. ...
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