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In some
hardpressed nations like Mexico food crops have been subsidized in order
that the farmers can compete with imports. For free trade, subsidies were
removed in 1984. Wordwide machines are costly and
food is cheap. An enormous social problem is the rural poor, mostly
tropical. The disease centers are really Africa, India & Southeast Asia. The
role of rural poverty looms repeatedly, reaching Chiapas, Nicaragua and
elsewhere. This endemic role attracts do-gooders, anthropologists and
revolutionaries. These are the populations with tropical diseases plaguing
their other problems that highlight a) little or no water and
drainage, b) lack of electricity and c) unemployment, aside from possibly
having little food.
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