One day Zandar took me to see the capital building where the president stayed. Right out front of the building was this HUGE community of people camping out in front with home-made tents made out of
what looked like black visqueen. (sp?) This was pretty much a huge village where people have been staying for years. They are there because many years back they worked on the banana plantations which were
owned by the major US companies. ie. Dole, Chaquita, etc. These US companies decided it would be better if they sprayed a toxic pesticide to keep the bugs off of the bananas and increase production.
They knew full well that this pesticide was completely unsafe and was banned from use in the US. These poor people now are all dying and very quickly. They say that since Nicaraguan government won't help them, that they would rather just die in front of the president. It's amazing to me to see first hand some of the repurcusions of US corporations on countries
they get recources from. Believe me, this kind of thing happens all over the world and it's really messed up!
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