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Article: Belize.(Country Profile)(Country overview)
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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Belize City, the commercial capital, is said to have been built on empty rum bottles discarded by the British pirates who used to launch their attacks on Spanish ships from behind the shelter of Belize's 300-kilometre-long coral reef. When Britain outlawed their trade, the pirates imported African slaves from Jamaica and began harvesting logwood, mahogany and cedar, all the while working further inland. The indigenous Mayan population resisted as swathes of their lands were lost to these settlers, but irreversible change had begun. Nominal Spanish rule ended in the 1840s when the territory became the colony of British Honduras.
Poor forest management ended the ...
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