Why Did the Miskito Turtle Hunters, Once a Purely Subsistence

question 89

Multiple Choice

Why did the Miskito turtle hunters, once a purely subsistence economy, need to work to pay off debts to outsiders, which eventually caused the collapse of the subsistence economy?

• A) The community started seeing an increase of drug use.
• B) Stores moved in that undercut the local prices of food.
• C) The turtle hunters had been given loans to buy equipment for hunting.
• D) Local taxes were imposed on the Miskito community.

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