You could be right. I don't know much about Liberia, so it's very possible they did something along those lines. I was thinking that Liberia was where Henry Ford had the big rubber plantations.
In Zimbabwe the colonialist (British) owned and pretty much ran the country for several hundred years, I believe. The locals were subjugated and used as cheap labor, as that was what the British were really good at doing. Agriculture was the big thing there, and the colonialists had these massive, sprawling farms all over the place. We had a bunch of customers there who grew tobacco in quantities that were simply staggering. Sometime in the last 15-20 years, I believe, the locals had had enough, and pretty much went medieval on the Brits, killing, raping, pillaging, etc., and returning their rightful lands back to themselves. Of course, now that they've destroyed all the infrastructure and dismantled the economic engines of the country, the place pretty well went into the toilet. This is the African country you've read about where inflation is so bad that pocket change is a million dollar bill in the local currency. Victoria Falls is nice, however. Dan Sent from my iPad > On Jun 9, 2015, at 1:08 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Dang, > Right continent anyway. > -Curt > From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 1:04 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Farmers cannot be trusted - what would they know about > climate change? > > I think you're thinking of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia). > > Dan > > Sent from my iPad > > > >> On Jun 9, 2015, at 12:52 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> Do like in Liberia and give the land to oppressed black folks. That worked >> so well... >> -Curt >> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
