on edu and la

The problem of poverty in Central America is growing; this is due to such things as lack of education and globalization. A huge cause of poverty in Central America is lack of proper education. The majority of the people have not had any type of schooling.  Lack of education creates dependence, dependence on people to read for you, which opens the opportunity for people to cheat you.  The elite run the governments and it is in their interest to keep down the poor so that they can exploit them for cheap labor.  If the people were given the opportunity to learn and go to school they could possibly open their own business and sell their products at better prices.  They also would be more knowledgeable on which candidate to vote for in elections because they could read the information themselves.  The poor have little access to the means pf production or the final product; they are simply a cheap source of production.  Exploitation by countries like the United States has also caused Central America to stay poor. The more developed countries that send corporations down to Mexico and set up sweatshops to make cheap goods for Americans to buy, force the independent stores to close and the workers get cheep paying jobs in Maquiladoras because they lack the education to work for themselves.  The workers slave away barely surviving on the pittance they receive; they cannot afford to send their children to school and so by continuing their dependence on America and other EDCs.  The average Salvadorian lives on one twentieth of what Americans live on.  The majority of the rest of Central Americans live on less than two dollars a day and most are under the poverty line.   Costa Rica is a good example of a country that is emerging from poverty.  The leaders put emphasis on democracy, getting rid of the armed forces, and moderating the inequality of income, and prioritized heath care.  They are significantly better off then some of the other Central American countries.  In Guatemala the number of 18-23 year olds who had received some sort of higher education was one in five as opposed to one in three Costa Rica.