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...developed world are produced on plantations in Colombia, Ecuador and Kenya. The companies that own these plantations or outsource work to them often deprive workers of rights and proper wages. According to the Center for Research and Advisory Health, a non-profit social medicine organization that has worked in Latin America since 1979, the average floral worker in Colombia makes 58 cents per hour—far below the national poverty line. Job security is also often nonexistent: workers are hired on a short-term contract basis and are subject to dismissal without fair justification...
...Part one was Africa, part two would be black America, sort of where we were as a people 35 years after the terrible death of Martin Luther King, and part three, which is in development now, would be a series on blacks in Latin America,” Gates says. “So the triangular trade, as it were: Africa, America, and the Caribbean, Latin America and South America...
...about it—is its immutability. Mass Hall has outlived generations of occupants; passing its stolid red brick on our way to class, we know it will anchor the Yard long after we’ve stopped sending checks to the development office. Commencement, baroque with its Latin and with its officials on horseback, exudes venerability; Harvard planners think in terms of decades and centuries as they limn the details of the Allston expansion. Despite the Undergraduate Council’s best efforts, it will be a generation before Harvard students enjoy a student center or a substantially better...
...most memorable Republican scandals of our lifetimes, meanwhile, are devoid of sexual excitement, but packed with violence—first in the Reagan administration’s use of Iranian gun money to finance terrorists in Latin America, and now in the emerging scandal over whether we invaded another country on false pretenses furnished by the Bush administration in an apocalyptic effort to sell a pre-fabricated policy...
They are sufficient, although we want to work more with President Bush on the specific needs of Mexico, because there's a difference in this case between Mexico and the other Latin American countries. As neighbors and NAFTA partners, we want to improve visas for Mexicans. And if Canadians don't have to be fingerprinted at U.S. airports, we'd eventually like that same exemption...