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Sugar in Neocolonial Latin America

Sugar in Neocolonial Latin America. Tim, Tom, Julia, Trevor, Lewis. Locations. Cuba Brazil Guatemala Mexico Peru Barbados Belize

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Sugar in Neocolonial Latin America

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  1. Sugar in Neocolonial Latin America Tim, Tom, Julia, Trevor, Lewis

  2. Locations • Cuba • Brazil • Guatemala • Mexico • Peru • Barbados • Belize • Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic were all major sugar producers in the late 1700s and early 1800s, but their sugar economies were largely destroyed by persistent unrest.

  3. Sugar boom • The sugar boom in 1840 was a slave based industry. • The sugar boom of the mid 1800’s brought the attention of US investors and soon they had control of the industry. • In 1880, slavery was abolished. A new system of planters called colonos sent their sugar to the mills called centrales. But very few freed slaves became colonos. The field workers were paid very little.

  4. Cuba’s sugar economy • By the mid-19th century, Cuban sugar exports provided 1/3 of the world’s sugar. • European sugar exports plummeted after plantations were destroyed in WWI, from 9 million tons to 1.8 million tons annually in just a few years. • Slavery was abolished in Cuba in the 1880s, but the sugar industry was still segregated between land-owning elites and lower-class workers who earned almost nothing.

  5. Dependence • Cuban elites saw opportunity in the sugar shortage at the end of WWI • Cuban production quickly doubled, from 2.7 million tons to 4.5 million tons annually. • Sugar made up more than half of Cuba’s economy. • U.S. became dependent on the Cuban sugar industry as well. 82% of Cuba’s sugar exports went to the United States at this point.

  6. Price changes • After WWII, the price of sugar in Cuba went from 4 cents to 20 cents a pound. • Revolutions and social unrest decreased prices in other sugar-producing countries.

  7. Current production Latin American countries, especially Brazil, currently lead the world in sugar cane exports. Cuba’s production has subsided, but Brazil and other Latin American economies have rebounded.

  8. Sources • http://mrstaberswiki.pbworks.com/f/1297207522/sugarcane1.jpg • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_sugar_economy • http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/havana/Sugar1.htm • http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/havana/Sugar1b.htm • http://www.angelfire.com/ar3/sugar/ • http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/whic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow

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