Flor de Caña
Flor de Caña ( Spanish for blossom of sugar cane ) is a rum from Nicaragua . This rum has been made from cane sugar in Chichigalpa since 1890 and sold on the domestic and world markets.
The Compañia Licorera de Nicaragua offers eight products, which differ mainly in the maturation period. The cheapest are distillates that have been matured for four years. These include: 4 year límon, 4 year extra lite, 4 year extra dry and 4 year gold. A five-year-old product is sold under the Etiqueta negra (“black label”) and the seven-year-old gran reserva are distillates that are also sold as “Pata de Elefante” (“elephant's foot ”), bottles with a filling quantity of two and a half liters. The 12-year-old "Centenarios" and the Centenario 21 , which has matured for 15 years before being filled into a ceramic bottle, are considerably more expensive . This is only surpassed by the “Centenario Gold”, which has matured for 18 years.
criticism
Some Nicaraguan consumer associations have called for a boycott of goods against the company. Since many of the company's former plantation workers suffer from chronic kidney failure and thousands have already died, they are demanding compensation payments for those affected and their families. The disease is due to the intensive use of pesticides. Although the group of companies relocated its workers from the plantations to the city after the first complaints, they deny a connection between the use of pesticides and the diseases. A report commissioned by the company from the University of Boston was able to provide only slight evidence ("limited evidence") of a connection.
According to the website latinomedia.de, the Chichigalpa Health Center published annual statistics in which 6081 cases of chronic kidney failure were listed. According to journalist Cecibel Romero there, 317 former workers of the Pellas group founded the Nicaraguan Association of Victims of Chronic Renal Failure (ANAIRC) and sued their employer. According to ANAIRC, at least 3,700 deaths and around 8,000 people have been affected by the disease so far. The Nicaraguan Institute for Urban Development reportedly found in a study that Chichigalpa has "the most productive soils in the country". However, ground and surface water are contaminated with nitrate and the pesticide toxaphen, "a result of the massive use of chemicals in the local agricultural industry".
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References and comments
- ↑ taz, article from November 4, 2010, bitter sugar cane, bitter rum , http://taz.de/1/politik/ Amerika/artikel/1/bitteres-zuckerrohr-bitterer-rum /
- ^ Boston University School of Public Health, INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE / OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT: Evaluating Potential Hazards Associated with Chemicals and Work Practices at the Ingenio San Antonio (Chichigalpa, Nicaragua) , p. 147, http://www.cao-ombudsman.org /documents/FINALIHReport-AUG302010-ENGLISH.pdf
- ↑ Article from November 8, 2010 at www.latinomedia.de Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
