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The economic insignificance of the thirteen colonies permitted the early diversification of their exports and set off the early and rapid development of manufacturing. Even before independence, North America industrialisation had official encouragement and protection. And England took a tolerant attitude while it strictly forbade its Antillean islands to manufacture so much as a pin.
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“The internal market, limited by the poverty of masses, cannot sustain the development of manufactures beyond certain limits. At the same time, agrarian reform, initiated by the Acción Democrática administration, has traveled less than half of the road its creators promised to traverse.”
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