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- Notes - Because of Fidel Castro's support for Russia, the U. S. stopped buying sugar from Cuba in 1961. This was a boon to the sugar producers of Negros Occidental, who were already enjoying huge profits from the sugar export trade after the lifting of economic controls in 1960. YYY Jeremias Montemayor, president of the Jesuit-backed Federation of Free Farmers (FFF), warned that if these profits were not shared with the hacienda laborers, the labor probem in the sugar-producing areas would get out of hand.
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