07/22/2004

 Many of the new settlers on the former commercial farms refuse to or cannot pay minimum wage to farm workers. They are accused by the former farm workers of using intimidation, hunger, and other methods to get the farm workers to work for them in "slave labor" conditions. Relations between new settlers and former farm workers are often quite antagonistic. Many of these farm workers are "internally trapped" rather than "internally displaced", as they cannot afford to leave the farms or are sometimes trapped there by government forces.