Word: guatemala
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...operatives of Guatemala provide examples of these two types of programs. Two cooperative federations, both funded by the Agency for International Development (AID) and using Peace Corps volunteers, are now working to improve the economic position of the small farmer...
...apple producing area is now advising a co-op in setting up an apple butter factory and making connections with food-chain distributors. This cooperative will offer higher prices for apples to local farmers than the middlemen--the truckers who buy apples to resell for higher prices in Guatemala City. The co-op assembly decided to take the risk and borrow the money to invest in the factory, on the condition that the volunteer would extend his stay another two years, until the factory is established...
Small farmers constitute 88 per cent of the population of Guatemala, but own only 14 per cent of the land. A subsistence farmer, who cannot grow enough corn for his family on his one or two acres of land or sell it for a reasonable price in the fluctuating market, must migrate to work on the coffee or cotton plantations--called fincas--at harvest time...
...France and Germany at the imperialist summit. Garrisons and outright colonies are no longer needed; American investment and influence and aculture can usually penetrate the Third World unaided. But American military stands ominously in the background, ready to re-open the channels of direct domination if problems appear. Interventions-- Guatemala (1954), Cuba(1961) and Indochina(1961- )--demonstrate that American imperialism can revert to classical forms if the need arises...
Here is Miguel Angel Asturias, the leftist, Nobel-prizewinning novelist (El Señor Presidente, The Green Pope), relaxing over tea in his Paris home and recalling his 1920s youth in dictator-ridden Guatemala. The leaders, he says, "kept themselves hidden, spinning evil from secret corners like spiders." In protest, he created his "literature of commitment" to call attention to poverty and death on banana plantations and in quebracho forests...