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You'd be absolutely shocked by what I see down here on a daily basis. I've passed citrus orchards with ankle-deep fruit on the ground because the market for it is saturated and the collectives can't make the tariffs to export it. Ecuador is extremely lucky in that even if three or four of our main crops fail, there are others to replace them. Although we have to currently import electricity, we're one of the only countries in the world that can export rice, and personally if I had to choose, I'd rather have a full tummy in the dark.