"In South America the poor man is an ignorant man, unawareg of the forces that-shape his destiny. The shattering truth —that he is kept poor and ignorant as the principal and unspoken component of national policy—escapes him. He cries for land reform, a system of farm loans that will carry him along between crops, unaware that the national economy in almost every country sustained by a one-crop export commodity depends for its success on an unlimited supply of cheap labor. Ecuador needs poor men to compete in the world banana market; Brazil needs poverty to sell its coffee; Chile, its tin; Colombia, its cacao and coffee, and so on."
(Living Poor : A Peace Corps Chronicle. Moritz Thomsen)
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