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Supermarket Giants Crush Central American Farmers PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 27 December 2004
By CELIA W. DUGGER

PALENCIA, Guatemala - Mario Chinchilla, his face shaded by a battered straw hat, worriedly surveyed his field of sickly tomatoes. His hands and jeans were caked with dirt, but no amount of labor would ever turn his puny crop into the plump, unblemished produce the country's main supermarket chain displays in its big stores.

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