The Family

I found "The Family," to be a very sad story. I was very surprised that such tragedies would happen in a country so close to our own. I could not believe that the Indians worked in such horrible conditions and did nothing about it for a while. I was appalled at the fact that they were treated like slaves. The events of this story are not too long ago. The land owners and government of this country clearly had zero regard for human life. They only cared about the profit of what their land yielded. The government was corrupt and did not care about the people and in fact only tricked/forced them into voting in wealthy white politicians who would look our for the interests of the land owners. I was absolutely appalled at the story of the woman being chopped up because she would not cheat on her husband with an over privileged land owner who just wanted her as a sex slave. And then the mayor did not even have the body disposed of. I think what disturbs me the most is that the United States contributed to this corrupt government to protect the interests of the United Fruit Company. In America we like to view ourselves as these great champions of democracy. After 911 we had an axe to grind in the Middle East and I can say that I honestly supported the war, I was just not found of the where we went and how we fought. But what I am getting at is that we went in to set up a democracy in Iraq. We wanted to bring a stable form of government to the Iraqi people and save them from the atrocities of Saddam Husein. But here it is only a few decades prior to 2001 and there are horrible atrocities happening in a neighboring country.