The epistle of Anna Stephany

Chapter 2

"Through social communication media the national government informs citizens about the increase in the prices of rice and milk" is heard on the radio loudspeaker. While Stephany is in her bathroom, brushing her teeth, "due to the effects of the drought that is afflicting the country."

According to the FAO, food production per person shows an increase of 2 percent in 1975. "In the Near East, food production per person increased by 3 percent, thus recovering the record level of 1972." Opinion one of the guests.

Anna Stephany, she finishes dressing when she sits in front of the mirror to straighten her hair.

"In production per person within Latin America, it declined slightly ... less than 3 percent at this level, but in Africa it was 9 percent below the average from 1961 to 1965. While in Latin America the level absolute production per person is higher than in other developing regions, in Africa the severity of the recent declines has been increased by the already very low absolute level ".

The nation has the need to maintain the increase in productive activity. The state knows its reality: seeking rapid measures to counteract the negative effects that occur in economic life due to weather events, while capitalism begins to undergo a crisis of inflation and recession.

In 1975, food production per person was more than 40 percent lower than the 1961-65 average in Equatorial Guinea, almost 40 percent in Algeria, 15 to 40 percent in five of the Sahelian countries and one 15 to 30 percent in 12 African countries, including Ethiopia and Nigeria.

At the end of 1998, Reina Melissa Rodríguez comes home at noon, when her mother is cooking with her older sister Isabel, because she did not have classes today. Her school is undergoing preventive maintenance to remove all the ceiling blocks that had fiberglass. A game of only $ 1,300. But on the other hand, for about 10.6 million dollars is the amount that the government of the moment, sells to a millionaire, the legality of the Azucarera in central provinces. Along with this man was her younger brother and two partners, including a lawyer, an economist and her brother. An award without competition, after the government of the tricolor flag, declared void the bidding contest on two occasions, making this the most complicated privatization of the Administration of the president of the time practiced an intensely liberal economic policy.

"We disagree with the measures taken with the rise in the price of rice and milk," say the protesters. While in the Bayano newspaper, everything that is heard is written. "We are convinced that, in the interests of the National Liberation struggle, our people must prepare to redouble their quota of sacrifice."

In recent years around 1975, there have been multiple revolutionary processes. Result of combats against the oligarchic governments of the moment, which serve the native and foreign capital.

The terrible inflation hits the country and affecting the worker.