Word: caning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young girl in a rural Puerto Rican sugar-cane town, Velazquez wondered what lay beyond the mountains. In 1992 she became the first Puerto Rican woman in the House and has maintained a strong commitment to her Latino roots. She was arrested in 1994 while protesting President Clinton's repatriation of Haitian refugees, and has fought for a national strategy to combat financial crimes...
...Pepe") Fanjul, one of the world's major sugar producers, who, with his companies and clan, has given Dole and his pac more than $62,000 over the years as well as $419,000 to the Republican Party since 1991. Dole opposed a plan last winter to tax Florida cane growers 2' for each pound of their product to help restore the Everglades, which is dying from the phosphorus runoff of sugar plantations like Fanjul's. But to do nothing for the Everglades would have crippled his presidential ambitions in the crucial state of Florida. So instead of assessing cane...
...with good reason. Annual floods smother the land with thick layers of silt that dry into impenetrable clay. What's more, says Diehl, "about 80% of the entire Olmec territory in southern Mexico has been converted in the past 20 years from jungle to cow pastures and sugar-cane fields. There's so much vegetation on the surface that you can't just pick up pottery. Generally, you can't even see the ground." Beyond that, the hot, humid climate makes the work extremely unpleasant...
...growers, both Southern cane farmers and Midwestern beet growers, outfoxed not only congressional reformers but also a high-powered coalition of sugar and sweetener users such as Coca-Cola and Hershey Foods. These opponents were joined by environmental groups, particularly those in Florida, where phosphorus-laden runoff from sugarcane fields has been turning stretches of the Everglades into cattail-clogged waters...
...similar attempt to dismantle the program on a 61-to-35 vote in February, albeit after some more conventional politicking--a deft Bob Dole maneuver. The majority leader--cum--presidential candidate pushed through a measure that earmarked $200 million to help clean up the Everglades by purchasing adjacent cane fields and retiring them from production. That placated colleagues concerned about the impact of sugar farming and made it easier for them to perpetuate price supports...