1. Coffee Planation Conflicts in El Salvador
... harsh conditions (Baylora-Herp, 1983; Hamilton & Chinchilla, 2001). In some cases, landowners established nucleated villages for plantation workers in order to secure a permanent labor force. As coffee plantations increased, the US and European countries such as Spain, Italy, and Britain invested in Salvadoran coffee production and exports. At this point, Us involvement in Salvadoran coffee industry became a major factor in ... hence heightening industrialization in Central America (Hamilton & Chinchilla, 2001). In El Salvador industrialization meant more peasant displacements as more l...
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