Evening star

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bounties to producers who conform

to quotas

The American and Filipino quo

tas are fixed. Cuba is allowed to fill

96 per cent of the market expan

sion. which amounts to about

135,000 tons a year. The other 4

per cent of the annual increase Is

shared principally by the Domin

ican Republic. Peru, Mexico, Nica

ragua and Haiti.

Why bar domestic producers from

sharing In the annual market In

crease? Cuban sugar is cheaper.

Also, the United States feels an ob

ligation to Cuba, which during

World War n saved this country

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used not onftr In foods, but In sev

eral industrial processes, like the

manufacturer of synthetic rubber.)

Cuba Needs Dollars

Cuba, In addition. Is the sixth

largest buyer of American prod

ucts. She uses the dollars she

gets from her sugar sales to pay

for the goods she buys from Amer

ican producers.

Another, less tangible reason for

the United States' coddling of Cuba

is a strategic-political one. Cuba is

a sort of Caribbean Formosa. In

unfriendly hands It would be as

dangerous to us as Formosa Is con

sidered to be by the Red Chinese.

If we were to wreck Cuba’s one

crop economy, as we could, friendly

strong-man Fulgencio Batista might

be overthrown by some hostile type

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1955). Washington, D.C., 1955-08-07. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1955-08-07/ed-1/?sp=25

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1955-08-07.