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...annually, and nearly half of the country's 18 million workers are totally or partly unemployed. Mexico's population (currently 67 mil lion) is growing at an annual rate of 3% and might reach some 100 million by the year 2000. For millions of Mexico's landless peasants, illiteracy, disease and malnutrition are chronic problems...
...veil, or chador (a shapeless garment that covers a woman from head to toe). When they shouted, "In the dawn of freedom, there is no freedom," they were supported by many others who feared that the promises of the revolution were not being kept: workers, ethnic and religious minorities, landless peasants, middle-class...
...more than doubled, to 65 million, in less than a generation. By the year 2000, Mexico is expected to have more than 100 million citizens. The danger for the U.S. is that the giant on its southern border will explode in social upheaval. Most of the unemployed Mexicans are landless peasants, and they face a cruel choice: scratch out a bare living at home, migrate to urban slums or sneak across the border for low-paying jobs...
...Central American standards, El Salvador is a vastly overpopulated, poverty-ridden feudal society. The elite 1.9% of the population, which owns 57.5% of the land, sells cash crops abroad while at home hunger and malnutrition are endemic. The oligarchy's prosperity depends upon plentiful cheap labor from landless, job-hungry campesinos, and, fearing bloody rebellion, it will do almost anything to prevent the peasantry from organizing. To eliminate political dissent, a sweeping new law decrees prison for anyone who perturbs the "tranquillity or security of the country" or "the stability of public values...
...small farmer and economic justice. If the amendments Carter introduces to the Reclamation Act of 1902 in the next Congressional session significantly raise the 160-acre ceiling, the self-styled Georgia peanut farmer will have sided with agribusiness against the defenseless, the rootless, the unemployed, and the landless...