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Search results for "sugar cane" ...
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Raising Cane: Looming Sugar Crisis May Sour Honeymoon Of Mexico's President
Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, coddled the Mexican sugar-cane industry, using it as a massive rural vote-buying machine. Now that the PRI is out of power, Mexico's sugar-cane industry, one of the underpinnings of the Mexican economy, is crumbling under billions in debt. Rural peasant unions are threatening to rise up against Mexico's new president, Vicente Fox Quesada.
Tags: sugar; sugar cane; vicente fox; PRI
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The Kingdom of Big Sugar
"After their father lost one of Cuba's great sugar fortunes to Castro's revolution, Alfy and Pepe Fanjul built a new empire in Florida, importing cheap Jamaican labor to do the brutal, dangerous work of sugarcane harvesting, and wielding ever more political power in Tallahassee and Washington, D.C., In 1989, outraged by what he calls "modern-day slavery,"a crusading 37-year-old lawyer named Edward Tuddenham took them to court, spawning four ongoing class-action suits on behalf of 20,000 former workers. Marie Brenner investigates an epic legal war that pits the Fanjuls' American Dream against the nightmare of migrant labor."
Tags: labor; worker's rights; agriculture; migrant workers; immigrant labor; rural legal aid; cane cutters; political donations; contract; Havana; Gomez-Mena; H-2 workers; Bygrave v. Okeelanta; appeal
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A Burning Question
Henslee and Anderson examine the burning of cane fields and the impact that has on the health of those exposed. They discover that farmers can not afford to stop burning the fields because burning is an affordable way for the crop to rid itself of any excess matter.
Tags: health; safety; environment; burning fields; sugar cane; crops; farming
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National Public Radio reports on Haitian children being lured into the Dominican Republic to work in the sugar cane fields; many times they are forced to work by Dominican military officials, July 22, 1991.
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No title (id: 8408)
ABC PrimeTime Live reports on young, poverty-stricken Haitian boys being lured into the Dominican sugar cane fields by recruiters who promise them high paying jobs in Santo Domingo; connects U.S. sugar company, Amstar Sugar, to the sugar plantation's slave labor, May 30, 1991.
Tags: TAPE
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No title (id: 7967)
National Law Journal examines the legal case of a group of migrant farm workers and sugar cane cutters who are suing their employers for minimum wage, April 1, 1991.
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