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What outraged Duarte was the sweeping nature of the resolution. President Alvaro Alfredo Magana's original proposal was to continue the exemption, first enacted last year, of cotton and sugar cane acreage from the so-called land-to-the-tiller reform decree, which enables tenant farmers and sharecroppers to acquire plots of up to 17 acres from their landlords. The suspension, for one growing season (a year for cotton, three to four years for sugar cane), was aimed at ensuring high production of two of the country's leading exports at a time of economic strain...
...Under Phase 1, estates larger than 1,235 acres, which produce about half of the sugar crop, 38% of the cotton and 12% of the coffee, were to be expropriated, with compensation to their owners, transferred to workers who had been employed on them, and turned into cooperatives. So far, 330 large estates have been reassigned to some 30,000 workers and their families. The estates were left intact to keep them operating efficiently...
...Florida to Surinam in South America, 2,000 miles away. The region's islands and Central American countries sorely lack the skilled manpower and other key ingredients of modern industry. The hot, tropical area simply remains the developed world's supplier of raw materials like sugar, coffee, cotton and bauxite, the ore from which aluminum is made...
...characters come onstage wearing labels but seldom baring lives. The personal relationships are uninvolving since they never seem more than cocktail-party deep, and Julia is a cotton-candy Casanova. Doleful of mien, downcast of eye, Guide's put-upon wife (Karen Akers) sits with cool rigidity on her cube for what seems like hours. Only when she abandons Guido with a torchy kiss-off number, Be On Your Own, does her pent-up rage kindle some semblance of warmth...
Enraptured by the same vitality we would unite The crashing oars giving way to the crushing of cotton. To explore each other in the moonlight as reflections of sunrise on the river condensed in sinew. In the morning we would return to our crews...