3. U.S. funds & trains militia groups to overthrow regimes which
threaten American business and foreign policy initiatives (i.e.
the Contras)
4. African Slave Trade:
After Jesuit interdiction, African slaves become involved in Latin
American agricultural production
5. In many nations, populist leaders became elected on platforms that worked
to nationalize industry, deter foreign intervention, or improve working
conditions....
6. … until coups disposed them and replaced them all with US-backed
military dictators.
7. Countries like Honduras and Guatemala
experience violent civil strife and guerilla
warfare that claim thousands of civilian lives
8. Public Deception:
American public is purposefully left in the dark on these developments;
legitimately-elected Central American governments sometimes misrepresented as
Communist
9. Even today, conditions for workers on banana
plantations in Central America and around the
world have seen only limited improvement.
10. ...though the use of modern pesticides and
fertilizers on banana plantations has been linked to
sterility in males and birth disorders in neighboring
villages.
11. Connectivity
In recent history, the peoples
most affected by human rights
violations linked to
industrial agriculture...
Are also those with the least
Internet connectivity
