Grounds for Revolution: the Stimulating Story of How Coffee Shaped the World
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The Emigration From El Salvador to the United States
In 19 32, this slauhter is called la matanza, and it basically used the uprising as an excuse to launch a wholesale, extremely brutal attack on el salvador's native population. The government was kind of helped in doing so from ind of tacit permission from the british government and the canadian government and the american government. So long story short, the us. Happily propped up a violent military dictatorship in el salvador in order to make sure the country remained a stable capitalist cog in the coffee machine. And that meant life for workers, for ordinary people were almost unbearable. A quarter of the entire population of el salvador left the country in search of
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