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...which corrupt local cadres keep China's farmers in a state of virtual feudal peonage, enriching themselves while imposing oppressive taxes on the very people the communist revolution was meant to uplift. Some officials practice simple extortion; others resort to embezzlement schemes straight out of Gogol. In the poorest areas, peasants are literally bled dry, forced to sell plasma to pay their tax bills. In other cases, farmers who stand up to bullying local officials are murdered. Since Chen and Wu first reported on the problem, China's government has taken steps to reform rural taxation. But with violent protests...
...came to power in 1970 with Soviet financing and a mere 36 percent electoral plurality, amid allegations of massive voter fraud that would later prove true. Allende turned Chile’s economy on its head, putting thousands out of work and home and expropriating the assets of the poorest of Chileans, who were left to stand starving in Soviet-style bread queues. Bands of revolutionary guerillas roamed the countryside, mercilessly evicting Chilean peasants from their land...
...urban and rural settings. Lee, an African American studies concentrator, said she intends to study the formation of popular assemblies and movements primarily in the Oaxaca and Chiapas regions of Mexico. The Oaxaca region has one of the highest indigenous populations in the country but also one of the poorest populations, according to Lee. “I’m working class and African American,” she said. “I feel like the struggles of the people in Oaxaca are similar to the struggles of African Americans in America.” Ogunnaike will...
...this hub of a glorious, steam-driven empire, the average life expectancy of the city's poorest was only 16, and the cellars of even the better off were often full of excrement. Still, the muck signaled a business opportunity to the 100,000 or so toshers (copper salvagers), mudlarks and bone-pickers who crammed the city's margins, scavenging its corpses or sifting through its effluvia on the banks of the Thames. The air in parts of the capital was so appalling that when, in 1854, cholera struck on Broad Street in the Soho district and quickly developed into...
...Proportion of the world's wealth possessed by the richest 1% of the population, according to a recent U.N. study 1% Proportion of global wealth possessed by the poorest half of the world's population