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Third World field trip. Over 30 years of travel research in three hours of lectures. Latin America. 300-900 AD. The Roman Empire was already declining. About 50 percent of Guatemala's 11 million people are Indians, who speak 24 indigenous languages.
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Third World field trip Over 30 years of travel research in three hours of lectures.
300-900 AD The Roman Empire was already declining.
About 50 percent of Guatemala's 11 million people are Indians, who speak 24 indigenous languages.
1.5% of farmers owns 63% of farmland. 20% of White men own cars; only 5% of Indian men do.
99 percent of the population owns 20 percent of the land. Copal, resin collected from pine trees in the surrounding mountains, is burned in the Roman Catholic church.
1 Pepsi = 1 pesoOR1 peso = 20 kg. of corn for a family for a week.
The Cathedral in Mexico City is the largest in Latin America. It took 300 years to build. The Zocalo (plaza) in front of it is the largest in the world.
Lumberjacks averaged $10-15 per week; food for a family of six cost $6 per week.
In the 19th century the Yucatan was an informal colony of Chicago’s International Harvester, which turned the sisal into bailer twine for Midwestern farmers. The planters built wedding-cake mansions in Merida and sent their children to schools in New Orleans and Havana.
350 years of slave trade here -- 9.5 million slaves Dutch Fort 1637 Portuguese Fort 1482