Word: ladino
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...unrest were some solid political, economic and social facts. Central America, whose tyranny was older than Spanish rule, had been unsettled like the rest of the world by World War II. Before 1939, politically and economically, most of Central America had not yet entered the 20th Century. German and Ladino landowners raised coffee in the highlands, paid their peons as low as 20? a day, shipped much produce to Europe. U.S. fruit companies dominated the coastal jungles, paid peons higher wages but took them away again at company stores...