The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America - autonomous ...

PART II
The Plantations of the
Cauca Valley, Colombia
Peasants! The sugar cane degenerates one;
turns one into a beast, and kills! If we don't
have land we cannot contemplate the future
well-being of our children and families.
Without land there can be no health, no
culture, no education, nor security for us, the
marginal peasants. In all these districts one
finds the plots of the majority threatened by
the terrible Green Monster, which is the Great
Cane, the God of the landlords.
Peasant broadsheet;
southern Cauca Valley, 1972