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Jim Webster > wrote: > > > > Bananas in the Carribean are another example. > It was once explained to me that the import quotas for Carribean bananas > was a political decision in Europe, in that we didn't want to leave the > Carribean to be divided up between the US and Cuba. It is just so much > easier to dress up as 'AID' and give it some sort of moral legitimacy. > It isn't a stance I agree with, but I would be very wary of getting on > too high a horse over this issue. > Jim Webster I saw the plantations in St Lucia pretty well idle. A few people were literally giving them to tourists with a donation box present because people tended to give more than they could get by setting a price. They said it was because their bananas did not meet some American conditions, unlike those grown by multinationals in Honduras. As for me I know nothing. |
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