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Latin America

Judi Lynn

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4. Can't understand why they do it, either. It's such a small, suffering country.

Reply to malaise (Reply #3)

Mon Nov 7, 2022, 04:03 PM

Nov 2022

US American corporations have loved using them for sweatshop labor, companies like Disney, big ones, and they barely pay them at all. The oligarchs stopped feeling shame so long ago.

I've often wondered what keeps the everyday citizens from simply going mad. Their lives are so full of pain, struggling, and hopelessness, it would seem.

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Haiti gang leader 'Barbecue' says fuel can start flowing in Haiti Eugene Nov 2022 #1

Life is unbearable in Haiti for the vast majority without these monstrous hardships added. Judi Lynn Nov 2022 #2

We are being fed pure BS about Haiti malaise Nov 2022 #3

Can't understand why they do it, either. It's such a small, suffering country. Judi Lynn Nov 2022 #4

Why? malaise Nov 2022 #5