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Hershey’s Chocolate Substitute Exposes Capitalism’s Global Theft Of Cocoa And Labor

July 1, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Hershey’s Chocolate Substitute Exposes Capitalism’s Global Theft Of Cocoa And Labor

Hershey’s cocoa cuts expose a global theft machine where farmers, miners, and workers create wealth while Western corporations capture the profit.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Africa, banana workers, capitalism, caribbean, CFA franc, chocolate substitute, cobalt mining, cocoa farmers, cocoa prices, coffee farmers, Congo, corporate profits, Economic Justice, Egberto Willies, extractive capitalism, France Africa, Ghana, Global South, Hershey, Ivory Coast, Latin America, lithium triangle, neocolonialism, Politics Done Right, supply chain exploitation, worker exploitation

How I overcame my culture-induced prejudices of homophobia and sexism and how you can too.

September 26, 2024 By Egberto Willies

How I overcame my culture-induced prejudices of homophobia and sexism and how you can too

As an immigrant from Panama who is an Afro-Latino Caribbean man, I brought two prejudices: homophobia and sexism. This is how I radicated those diseases from my being.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Afro-Latino, caribbean, culture, homophobia, prejudice, Sexism

Texas Grassroots Alliance interviews the author of Tribulations Of An Afro-Latino Caribbean Man.

April 13, 2024 By Egberto Willies

Interview about my new book “Tribulations of an Afro-Latino Caribbean Man: Racism Didn’t Stop My Smile, Hope, Or Journey Forward” with Houston Democracy Project’s founder Neil Aquino (@aquino1_neil) & Texas Grassroots Alliance’s Alex Montalvo (@montalvoftw).

Filed Under: General Tagged With: African American, Afro-Latino, Alexander Montalvo, black, book, Book Interview, caribbean, Houston Democracy Project, interview, latino, Martin Luther King, Neil Aquino, racism, Texas Grassroots Alliance, Tribulations of an Afro-Latino Caribbean Man

Frustrations in Colón, Panama, as Economic Growth Skirts By – NYTimes.com

April 10, 2013 By Egberto Willies

This is a sad story of the city where many of my folks still live in. It is interesting that I remember the very building in the picture. In my days in was a huge apartment building with a French façade and well painted. It got worst every single year that I returned to visit. […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: caribbean, Colon, Panama, racism

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