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Eighty percent of the exported bananas in the world are grown in Latin America (Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia). A local farmer has no other alternative than to sell for a price offered by the multinational company. When working conditions and ecology is in question, these companies (Dole Food, Chiquita,…) have nothing to do with it the plantations are not theirs, they are only buyers.

Local governments in the attempt of organizing banana export provide low duty taxes on export, they try to influence social and environmental politics, they attract the big companies to their countries. If the local governments did not do it by themselves, the big companies would threaten with going somewhere else

Photography and esseay by Jan Sochor

This is an absolutely fantastic art center located in Santo Domingo, Colombia and is real future of post-apocalyptic architecture to look like. The design of the center invites everyone. Inside is most modern cultural showcases, with sharp angles and the inoffensive use of white paint and pale woods.

In this superb architecture building visitors can find a library, cafe and restaurant, bars and many many spacious rooms with elements of art all over.

Architect Giancarlo Mazzanti distribute the obtrusive and predictable rearrangements of glass, steal and concrete phallic references with this organically inspired beacon of grounded, yet ethereal modernity.

Celebrating nature’s beauty and remindingof the impermanence of most man-made structures, this design invites everyone closer without the subconscious feeling you are merely a visitor in someone else’s domain.