has played a big role in supporting countries in which they believe they can benefit from in the long run. Many reasons for this is because many natural resources needed for weapons, bullets, and plane parts are not easily found on U.S. soil. While other reasons are from the high demands of tomatoes and cocoa within the past fifty years.
In chapter five the document titled Ivory Coast, Africa—Chocolate and Child Slavery addresses the issue of exploitation not of cocoa but of the laborer’s who make its production possible. Who are they? Children, and its slavery, in the report the issue is not only the fact that companies like the Ivory Coast have not stopped to think of it ethically being wrong but the lack of knowledge from farmers. When farmers had been questioned by CNN reports they informed they had never been contacted and informed about the International Cocoa Initiative about labor trafficking of children.
Chile is another country that has suffered at the hand of the exploitation of resources. Specifically, nitrate before WWI. When a German chemist figured out how to collects nitrate from the air. This meant one of Chile’s demanding resources was no longer needed from them. As a result, Chile became dead in its wake with only two operating nitrate farms left in its wake. Therefore, if the demand is high countries remain