一拉丁美洲的面积有两千多万平方公里,在那里生活着一亿六千万的人口。人口的分布极不平均,有人口稠密的大城市;相反地,也有无人居住的广大地区。居民的百分之七十是生活在农村,在那里半封建的制度占着优势地位。绝大多数的农村居民没有土地。三分之二以上的土地属于少数封建主或为外国的机构所控制。每六百八十公顷的耕地才有拖拉机一部。拉丁美洲不识字的有七千万。由于所有国家都是只有矿业的发展或是次要的单一作物,因此经济情况是特别危急的。七种产品构成了拉丁美洲全部出口物品的百分之八十,这七种产品是,咖啡、砂糖、香蕉、可可、石油、铜和锡。拉丁美洲是一个输出原料的地方,因而它不得不输入工业品;它以非常低微的价格输出原料,但是在取得 A Latin American area of ​​more than 20 million square kilometers, where there are 160 million people living. The distribution of the population is extremely uneven, with large densely populated cities; on the contrary, there are vast areas that are uninhabited. Seventy percent of residents live in rural areas, where the semi-feudal system dominates. The vast majority of rural residents have no land. More than two thirds of the land belongs to a few feudal lords or to foreign agencies. There are tractors for every 680 hectares of arable land. There are 70 million people in Latin America who are illiterate. The economic situation is particularly critical as all countries have only mining developments or secondary single crops. Seven products make up 80 percent of all Latin American exports, including coffee, sugar, bananas, cocoa, petroleum, copper and tin. Latin America is a place for export of raw materials, so it has to import industrial goods; it exports raw materials at a very low price, but when it is made