CH ST 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sugar Refinery, Guerrilla Warfare, Border Angels
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Grandmother gave her children to neighbors so they could be fed father went through enormous pain and grew up to be alcoholic, someimes violent. North american sugar companies took over pr and made them work on the us sugar ields. Us imposed us ciizenship on puerto ricans just in ime for the pr to be drated into wwi. Puerto ricans punished for speaking spanish in school in pr. When truman became president, us started addressing the problems in pr. 1000s of pr signed up in pr to come work in usa. Father and brothers of author fought in wwii and expected to have opportuniies in usa. By 2003, pr living in us outnumbered their populaion on the island. Over 83% of the disappeared and dead were maya. Jacobo arbenz (president) to reduce the power of the united fruit company in guatemala lain. America had become the incubator for all the great us agriculture companies.
