U.S. Aid Agency and Overseas Jobs
For more than a decade our democratic government has intervened in Central America to stabilize conflict between the haves and the have-nots. Our policies there have never been disinterested or idealistic, but highly manipulative.
Now that El Salvador is quiescent, Honduras is occupied by American personnel who “advise” its government, and Costa Rica is economically dependent upon American aid, we are establishing textile and other sweatshops, in order that American businesses can compete with the Asian “tigers” by paying Central Americans 33 cents an hour.
I see little difference between the tyranny of communism and the tyranny of capitalism in practice.
JEAN E. ROSENFELD
Tarzana
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