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Rice in the Time of Sugar - The Political Economy of Food in Cuba (Paperback)
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Rice in the Time of Sugar - The Political Economy of Food in Cuba (Paperback)
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In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez proposes a new Cuban
counterpoint: rice, a staple central to the island's cuisine, and
sugar, which dominated an export economy 150 years in the making.
Perez shows how the logic of the sugar trade resulted in the
development of an agriculture for consumers abroad at the expense
of consumers at home. In the process, dependency on food imports, a
signal feature of the Cuban economy, was set in place. Efforts to
diversify the economy through expanded rice production were met
with keen resistance by U.S. rice producers, who were as reliant on
the Cuban market as Cubans were on the U.S. market. U.S. growers
prepared to retaliate by cutting the sugar quota in a struggle to
control Cuban rice markets. Perez's chronicle culminates in the
1950s, a period of deepening revolutionary tensions on the island,
as U.S. rice producers and their allies in Congress clashed with
Cuban producers supported by the government of Fulgencio Batista.
U.S. interests prevailed-a success, Perez argues, that contributed
to undermining Batista's capacity to govern. Cuba's inability to
develop self-sufficiency in rice production persists long after the
triumph of the Cuban revolution. Cuba continues to import rice,
but, in the face of the U.S. embargo, mainly from Asia. U.S. rice
growers wait impatiently to recover the Cuban market.
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