What are the conditions which the people of El Salvador have rebelling against? El Salvador is the most densely populated country in the Western Hemisphere, mıllion inhabitants living in its 8,200 square miles.
The average yearly income is $450, but even this miserly misleading. The population is divided between number wealthy people and a vast mass of impoverished working people with very few in between.
Hunger stalks El Salvador. Recent studies rank it among the countries most seriously affected by malnutrition. At least 74 per cent of children under the age of tive show signs of protein calorie malnutrition.
About the infants Salvador die birthday. There are fewer than three doctors for every 10,000 inhabitants.
The roots of this misery can be easily seen. Central whole has an annual product of more than $12 billion with a relatively small population of 18 million. wealth is systematically expropriated by US imperialism.
Private investment in the region by the United States came to $734m in 1977, of which $248m was invested in industry. These investments gave US corporations a return of 17 per cent on their investments system of land ownership means that a mere 2 per cent of the population own 60 per cent of the cultivable land.
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